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...RECRIMINATE at Oxford and 26th streets, site of the recent videotaped police beating of carjack suspectThomas Jones...
...still not clear who fired, only that an officer had been shot in the hand. Jones then lunged behind the wheel of a squad car and fled again. Police showered the car with more than 40 bullets, but Jones managed to drive 1 1/2 miles to the corner of Oxford and 26th streets. There, a hovering helicopter from a local TV station captured the now infamous 28 seconds...
Perhaps that's the wrong way to say it. I arrived at Trinity College a few days ago for a short summer program and fell in love with the place. Wonderful tutors, friendly people, lawns clipped so close you could shoot pool on them--Oxford is one of those rare locales that is charming without being cliched about it. But everything I do here is shadowed by the nagging feeling that I only have six weeks before returning to familiar Cambridge, and all because I was too afraid to leave my comfortable Harvard niche for two semesters...
...probably could have finished college without leaving Cambridge and been perfectly satisfied. But I decided to come to Oxford for the summer. After being a little worried that I was missing out on some killer internship or summer job, now I'm seeing everything I'm missing out on by being too afraid to come here for a year. Its so easy to compare Oxford to Cambridge, and to be homesick for decent food and familiar newspapers and the Boston Red Sox. But by knowing that I'll be back in my natural habitat so soon, it's just...
Jonelle M. Lonergan '02, a Crimson executive, is an English concentrator in Winthrop House. She is studying at Oxford University's Trinity College this summer...