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Knowles, who first met Smith in the 1960s at Oxford University, noted Smith’s commitment to science...
Born in Plymouth, England, Smith attended Cambridge, where he received his bachelor and doctoral degrees. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, he was an organic chemistry university lecturer at Manchester University...
...weeks ago, sitting at the Judson Grill, a sleek New York City hangout for publishing types, Gollob, 71, reflected on the path that has taken him on scholarly jaunts to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, to Oxford University and even to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. His interest in the Bard is only intensifying, the Houston-born Gollob says with a Texas twang. "You read Shakespeare like you read the Bible," he says. "Because he's rich in ambiguity, you find something new each time you read him, something you've missed...
...surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor? It's the reason for the holiday, after all - and for Europe, it also remains a vexing economic dilemma. The U.S. recovery from its 2001 economic stall and the Sept. 11 shock showed that Europe still has to take its lead from America...
...universities.) But there are other times when I feel like strangling the “funny” guy in my entryway who asks what I think the “Brits” will do without “the Queen Mum” or like stabbing my Oxford friend who wants to know whether “all Americans really claim to have seen UFOs.” Often the mere presence of someone from another country makes people ask questions so facile and puerile that they would never do so otherwise. And just...