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After recording stints in Paris and Copenhagen, the band finished up Kid A in a newly built studio not far from its hometown of Oxford, England. All the members of Radiohead grew up around Oxford, where they attended Abingdon School, a private all-boys school. It was there they discovered a shared love of music and began performing together. Nigel Hunter, Yorke's art teacher at Abingdon, says the aspiring rocker was strong-willed even then: "He was very independent. He wasn't someone who was swayed by a crowd...
They can breathe easier now. In contrast to the more conservative gatekeepers at Merriam-Webster and The Oxford English Dictionary, the editors at American Heritage practice a linguistic open-door policy. Give us your "shock jocks," your "scuzzbuckets," they say. Give us your "digerati" yearning to "multitask." "People look at the dictionary as a normalizing thing," says executive editor Joseph Pickett. "It helps to give the word codified status." Not all words, thankfully. Take "stalkerazzi," which gained currency after Lady Diana's death. The term was considered for the dictionary but couldn't produce convincing credentials. Maybe it lost...
...debates, on the subject of whether Bush should be elected president, were based on the Oxford format, in which each debater speaks for seven minutes on the resolution at hand. After the first minute, anyone can rise to ask the speaker a question. This goes on for five minutes, with the last minute reserved for the speaker...
Annually, the United States grants 32 applicants the opportunity to become Rhodes Scholars and study at Oxford University...
According to Bohlmann, the United States Rhodes secretary and the warden of Rhodes House in Oxford visited him and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, "encouraging us to be a little more liberal in our endorsements...