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...Officer Julie Bates radios that she's located the suspect and is in foot pursuit--words that throw the other units into high gear. Westlund races up and down Oxford St. in the unmarked cruiser, shouting "Where are you? Where...
...competitive university to show that they can handle both the academic rigor and the social distractions of college life. Before their three college-bound, homeschooled children began making applications, the Heywood family of Durham, N.C., sent each child to a summer program at a highly ranked school: Oxford University in England or Williams or Amherst college in Massachusetts. "We chose to educate our kids at home because we weren't happy with what the local schools had to offer," says their father, John Heywood, 55, a retired lawyer. "But now it's time for them to get out there...
...Ghana, Annan's father is still revered. His name was Henry Reginald Annan--the first and middle names were a legacy of British colonialism, when ambitious Africans named their children as if they were bound for Oxford. Annan happens to be a sturdy Scottish name, and from time to time business associates believed that H.R. Annan was a Highlander--until they met him. In fact, Henry Reginald Annan was a noble of the Fante tribe. He was possessed of a legendary personal reserve. His son recalls seeing him steam up only once or twice--including the day of the cigarette...
...Oxford, Bill Clinton won friends and charmed girls by bragging about what he said were the giant watermelons of Hope...
...Tiger's risky overhaul of his swing, followed the golfer during his practice rounds at St. Andrews before the British Open, listening to him and his coach and caddy discussing the types of shots he should hit on different holes in different conditions. Says Goodgame, who played golf for Oxford University: "I've seen good players rework their swings and never recover. What Tiger did took guts." Ratnesar, who attended Stanford with Tiger and is based in London, flew in to interview the athlete. "What struck me," he says, "is his self-assurance, his almost other-worldly belief that things...