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...having sex with him. Spooky stories abounded about Tony's strange disappearances, his attempts to hide himself (once in a school laundry chute), his bursts of exhibitionism. Although he had left numerous prep schools, he and his mother decided he was ready, with brief cramming, to enroll at Oxford. His father looked on from afar with contempt. Brooks had repeatedly tried to leave his wife; she responded by attempting suicide four tunes, the last when he departed with a girl a generation younger who came into their home as Tony's steady date...
...main worry was not so much Shahnawaz's funeral as the anticipated return of the former Prime Minister's daughter Benazir, 32, and the emotional welcome she was expected to receive. Benazir, who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, is her father's political heir and the present leader of the P.P.P. After her release from imprisonment and house arrest in 1984, Benazir moved to London and has led the party from exile. Although the P.P.P. has been banned for the past eight years, it is still the most popular party in Pakistan. It is also the dominant member...
...Sheed & Ward established a New York publishing branch, Frank used his circuit riding to recruit authors. In England, the "Pied Publishers" signed Monsignor Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh's favorite priest, and in America, the Rev. Fulton Sheen, for whom Wilfrid worked briefly and unenthusiastically after finishing his education at Oxford. Billing his proselytizing parents as "kings of the Catholic world from John o' Groats to Borneo," Sheed asserts they stirred up the forces that "would change the face of American Catholicism." But he never makes quite clear how; perhaps it was by sheer exuberance. In any case, the winds...
...appreciate that the onset of warmer weather is a cause for delirious rejoicing. May Day (the term does not, in this case, refer to anti-globalization riots but to May 1) is when the celebrations take place, and no English city embarks on them with more style than Oxford. The fashionable gathering place for the city's large student population is Port Meadow - an expansive greensward on Oxford's outskirts and the setting for boisterous all-night dance parties on April 30. Those left standing in the early hours troop back into town to join thousands of traditionalists and tourists...
...Hugh's with the range of her intellect and the ease with which she masters subjects. In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says, because "it's all to do with...