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...decade ago it was women priests; now it's gay clergy. The Church of England is embroiled in another anguished dispute that pits liberals against conservatives and evangelicals, and threatens to split the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion apart. The trigger: Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries' appointment of a gay man as Bishop of Reading. Arguments over homosexuality in the priesthood have simmered for years, even as a blind eye has been turned to the fact that some members of the clergy are gay. But the appointment in May of Jeffrey John, canon theologian at London's Southwark Cathedral...
...HUPD officers responded to a report of a hazardous condition at Gordon McKay Laboratory on Oxford Street. They safely secured the condition...
...HUPD officers were dispatched to the Botanical Museum on Oxford Street on a report of a suspicious package. They determined that the package was device for construction...
...Amnesiac, but when the group reconvened to discuss plans for Hail to the Thief in early 2002, it was decided that the creative process had to change. The other members of Radiohead--Selway, guitarists Ed O'Brien and Jonny Greenwood and bassist Colin Greenwood--grew up with Yorke in Oxford. They loved him as a friend and admired him as a songwriter. But they wanted to make a record in time to catch the next Olympics. "On Kid A and Amnesiac we had far too much time to play around and rip everything apart," says Selway. "Consequently...
...shrouds that crucial point in a show of grief, describing how she gulped for air and cried and felt the universal female emotion of wanting to wring her husband's neck. There's a couple million votes right there. Martha just needs to don a hairshirt under her perfect Oxford blouse, confess to misjudgments as if she's on Oprah, show contrition, ask forgiveness. She can continue to say she's innocent, but at the same time open herself up to the mercy of public opinion. It's the only way to make schadenfreude give way to sympathy. Who knows...