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...their beds at Marble Arch, in the still accessible passageway to the Underground. They do not have the luxury of deciding to move to a safer part of the world, unlike the tourists who returned home after the attacks. On Friday, retail shopping at the many department stores on Oxford Street proceeds unfettered. Despite their adverse effect on the stock market, the attacks have not stopped most shoppers’ determination to take advantage of sale prices...
...average of 155 pounds per man, we found ourselves facing off against the better part of Cambridge’s reserve crew—average weight: somewhere around 200 pounds. Our competition included several post-graduates, as well. The team had set a record in the reserve race against Oxford several months before. We were collectively outweighed by around 240 pounds, a fact that rendered meaningless any comparisons between our race and last year’s epic showdown between Harvard’s and Cambridge’s varsity heavyweights. This race was more David-and-Goliath than...
Another component of the Summer School—study abroad—had scheduled a month-long session of classes at Oxford University beginning July...
...mail sent at around 9 p.m., London time to students registered for the Oxford program, Robert Neugeboren, a Summer School assistant dean, wrote that “we are not aware of any [Summer School] students having been in London at the time of the incident. We are following the situation closely and will keep you up to date on any foreseeable impact” on the upcoming program...
...week search that began after the three men disappeared on June 21, just one day after they had arrived in Mississippi. They had attended a week-long indoctrination course, sponsored by a civil rights coalition called the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Schwerner, son of a Pelham, N.Y. wigmaker and a graduate of Cornell, had been working for the Congress of Racial Equality in Meridian, Miss., since January, had volunteered to go up to Oxford to instruct Northern students in voter-registration techniques. Chancy, a slender young man from Meridian, had accompanied...