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...easy to see why some people would find Booker's record hard to believe: he played tight end for Stanford's football team. At Oxford, he was elected president of the Jewish L'Chaim society--even though he's a Baptist. He's a vegetarian, and says he has never drunk alcohol. And did we mention he once talked a suicidal fellow student out of jumping...
...wine to the Passover tables of his childhood, where "wine was the one thing forbidden to the kids." By the time he was in his teens, he was taking tasting courses in his hometown of Berkeley, Calif. And though Philips studied film at U.S.C., got a master's at Oxford and bounced from job to job, he spent his free time sniffing, swirling and spitting his way through the world's wines. "Preparation," he says, "for what I was supposed to be doing...
...team had taken its show overseas and attended the International Intercontinental Dancesport Festival in England, defeating not only the top American teams, but British powerhouses Oxford and Imperial College as well...
...without stocking them first with coolers of beer. So maybe it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise when, in real life, Brown grabs a couple of Budweisers before sliding behind the wheel for an automobile tour of the back roads near his home just north of Oxford, Miss. As he drives, Brown, 48, points out the homes of his mother, his cousin and his wife's cousin. "My kinfolk have lived here for generations," he says. "I've been to a lot of places, and I've never found any one I like as much as this...
...colleagues in the profession are amazed and delighted to hear of a choir that sings daily services in the U.S.--that's usually thought of as an English tradition," writes Somerville, who was born in London and studied at Oxford...