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Despite having recently decided to leave Oxford for a tenured position at NYU, Niall Ferguson is breakfasting this morning with Akira Iriye, chair of Harvard’s history department, who said the department is interested in bringing Ferguson to Harvard as a tenured professor...
...year-old Ferguson is a preeminent professor of political and financial history at Jesus College, Oxford University. He is the author of five works on international affairs and business, including The Pity of War, a widely acclaimed study of Britain’s role in World...
...Anchorage Daily News to the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record recorded area moments of silence on the first anniversary of the attacks—that it is instructive to investigate the origins of the phrase. The first recorded use of “moment of silence,” the Oxford English Dictionary notes, was in 1942, when the American Sociological Review resolved to “express our regret and honor their memory by rising and preserving a moment of silence.” Whose memory, the venerable OED doesn’t say; there are space constraints. But clearly...
They came from as near as the Mallinckrodt chemistry labs on Oxford Street and as far as Berkeley, Calif...
...just has to find a law school which will accept an application mere weeks before most English law schools start—and after contacting every college of Oxford and Cambridge and many other schools, he has just one prospect, he said...