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...Composers. It was a no-nonsense school of writing that might demand a four-page story or a poem to accompany a leftover illustration - by lunchtime. McCaughrean calls it "the best job I ever had," and the discipline has stood her in good stead since 1982 when she persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand...
...sure that the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are thrilled,” Miller said. “It’ll be a lot easier for them to attract top students...
...JUMP ON THE VIRUS At least scientists and doctors can profit from Turkey's troubles. "There will be huge lessons to come out of these outbreaks," says John Oxford, a professor of virology at London's Queen Mary's School of Medicine. "Even the dad whose children died can reassure himself of that." The most crucial item of scientific information: who officials say they have so far seen nothing to indicate that the Turkish victims contracted bird flu from other people, the potential nightmare that could lead to a pandemic. Virologists at the National Institute for Medical Research (nimr...
When he goes to England this coming fall to study at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, the biggest worry for Jay A.H. Butler ’06 will probably be whether he is on time for his flight. The recently announced international Rhodes Scholar from Bermuda admitted laughingly that he was a little bit late for his Rhodes Scholar interview in Bermuda over Thanksgiving break. But this senior’s tardiness did not faze the selection committee. Butler, a Bermuda native, was the only Harvard undergraduate to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship this year. While Rhodes Scholars from...
According to Gomes, bells have been a feature of Harvard’s campus throughout its history, stemming from the tradition at Oxford and Cambridge of using bells to mark time and recognize solemn occasions...