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With Harvard still deeply entrenched in its massive fund-raising campaign, one can only wonder what its response would be to the kind of gift that was recently offered to, and then rejected by, Oxford University. The dons of Oxford refused to accept $34 million presented by Saudi billionaire Wafic Said for the founding of a new business school. I guess when you're the oldest university in the English-speaking world, you can get away with such ingratitude...
...gift was refused because it was to be used to enshrine the study of business management in a majestic new school destined, as Oxford administrators assert, to become a major center for management research in Europe. The Daily Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper, quickly decried the decision as based on an elitist bias described as "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty...
...must assume that Harvard would have chosen differently. First, the Harvard Business School (HBS) already enjoys the plush palatial environment which Oxford seems wary of creating. Second, the institutionalized study of business management is fully accepted among American universities. In fact, United States business schools graduate some 80,000 MBA's each year. If Said was incensed at the refusal of his generosity, HBS should be even more insulted--Oxford was explicitly denying the legitimacy of such an institution within the academy...
Lott and Clinton are also five years apart, a gap that feels like a whole generation. Clinton came of age in the late 1960s, surrounded by the Eastern elite: at Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School. He protested for racial justice and against the war in Vietnam. He grew a beard, didn't inhale and was as undisciplined then as now, studying in last-minute crams and failing to earn a degree at Oxford...
...order to make his comeback in the world where he feels safest--TV. This week he debuts in his first prime-time sitcom, titled--with the help of input from focus-group research--Arsenio (ABC; Wednesdays, 9:30 p.m. ET). The show has all the flair of an Oxford shirt...