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...graduate of Oxford college and a loyal patriot, Bond is the paragon of thoughtful manliness, which is not always an oxymoron. He is intelligent but not reflective, independent (the "00" in "007" represents a license to kill) but not reckless, reliable but not predictable. Consider, by contrast, the brutish strength of professional athletes, or the thoughtless braggadocio of action heroes like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the like. Bond is a caricature of manliness, to be sure, but not an altogether unflattering...
...impossible to obtain. And while Aussie winemakers have been building a great business--exports are up more than 50% in the past five years--they are also changing the way wine is made in some of the oldest vineyards on earth. Says Jancis Robinson, editor of the newly revised Oxford Companion to Wine: "It is difficult to overestimate the Australian impact." Explains New York City wine expert Humphrey Oguda: "No one has done so much for wine so fast. The giants of Australia, like Penfolds, make more than 1 million bottles of wine a year, and they scare every French...
...class of Yalie he deemed "intellectual snobs." To Bush, the epitome of the type was Strobe Talbott, the current Deputy Secretary of State. Talbott (a distant relative of Bush) was one of the class of 1968's most ambitious brains--editor of the Daily News, Rhodes scholar roommate at Oxford to Bill Clinton, and before joining the Clinton Administration, career journalist for TIME magazine, specializing in defense and foreign policies. "Strobe was the kind of person George could not stand," says Robert Birge, who was a member with Bush in Skull & Bones, a Yale secret society. "He was appalled...
...many of the 1,400 or so American undergraduates studying in Britain (an increase of 26% in the past three years), family connections, a fondness for all things British and, most of all, the prestige associated with an Oxford, Cambridge or Edinburgh education matter more than price. Yet even though Britain's tuition fees for foreign students are substantial, they are lower than those at many private U.S. schools, and a bachelor's degree usually takes only three years...
...learn, because at those schools students take courses in only one subject during their three-year bachelor program. "If you really know what path you want to take in life," observes Polner, now in her final year at York, "then it's a great way to do it." While Oxford student Graef Allen, 20, sometimes misses the art and music electives she might have taken at home, she appreciates Oxford's tutorial system and being able to "do a lot specialized stuff" in her field, biochemistry...