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...case, the museum's catalogs are probably outdated. Some experts also suspect that members of the museum staff have been stealing, both last week and possibly in previous years. Even those who doubt such involvement, such as Jeremy Black, an ancient Iraq specialist at the Oriental Institute at Oxford University, are hard-pressed to explain some of the thievery. "We've seen it stated that some of these looters got in with keys," he says. "How they got those keys, I don't know." Soldiers who have belatedly been assigned to guard the museum told TIME they had heard eyewitness...
...Lessons for Global Power. The book seeks to restore the word “empire” to its former glory. Ferguson, the Herzog professor of financial history at the NYU’s Stern School of Business and a senior research fellow at Jesus College in Oxford University, offers a reinterpretation of what is commonly seen as a dark chapter in British history. In the last half-century, historians have focused on the racism, violence and exploitation that lay at the empire’s heart and helped Britain to build a colonial network encompassing nearly a quarter...
...When I come back now, I have this terrific feeling of visiting a place that was very valuable in my life,” Toback says. “Oscar Wilde, in Frank Harris’ biography of Wilde, talks about what Oxford meant to him. There was no other place he could have dreamed of going. I felt that way about Harvard…It was the place I must have, could have, should have been—and actually...
Competing at Yale on Saturday, the Harvard men’s and women’s track teams were vying not only for the victory but also for individual places on a combined traveling team that will head to England this summer to compete in the Oxford-Cambridge meet...
Individually, teammates have an extra incentive to perform well, as the lineup for the annual Oxford-Cambridge meet in June will be decided by individual performances this weekend...