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...male-dominated world, are still quite relevant. At the center of the play is a young Welsh coal miner, Morgan Evans (Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta), who is taken under the wing of the local teacher, Miss Moffat (played by Dossy Peabody '74), in hopes of obtaining a scholarship to Oxford. In many ways, The Corn in Green can be looked at as a predecessor of the recent blockbuster Good Will Hunting. Yet, The Corn is Green, with its bittersweet ending and multi-faceted characters, is far more realistic and enjoyable than the fantastical Matt Damon film...
...correct to assume that a college residence should "link living and learning" and "emphasize strong faculty participation" in the lives of undergraduates. At Harvard, the House system was instituted in the 1930s for this purpose-to provide students with a decentralized, small-college atmosphere, modeled on the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, within a large university. Students were supposed to feel a strong personal attachment to their House and to the community it provided...
Groat received his doctorate in linguistics from Harvard in 1997. A book of his, titled A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations, was published by Oxford University Press earlier this month...
...blundering inability to think seriously or act cautiously at a critical time in Britain's history, Thatcher, in an ignorance of reality so great that even her own party blushed, she proclaimed that Britain had become "a classless society." And yet she slashed education and research funding, pinching Oxford as tightly as the network of polytechnic schools that might have eased Britain's working classes into the new era. She was directly responsible for Britain's "brain drain"; at a time when the rest of the Western world was swelling with emigres from the East, scientists and scholars fled...
...Barbie-izing) is played by the breasts of the breathtakingly talentless and Academy-Award-nominated Jennifer Tilly. Whoever made the decision to cast the most annoying voice in movies in a mostly vocal role ought to be subject to Ms. Tilly's audio-book recording of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary...