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...scholars, one from inside the University and one from Oxford University in England, have been awarded tenure...
Richard L. Taylor, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, has been appointed to a position in the Mathematics Department...
Deutch encourages such admiration by spreading himself thick across the corridors of power. His squash partner is Clinton's Oxford classmate and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Deutch likes playing hardball. William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, is not only Deutch's ex-boss at the Pentagon but also his former business partner. Deutch knows how to make stone-faced Secretary of State Warren Christopher laugh. At the Prime Rib, a tony Washington restaurant, he swaps spy stories with Senator Specter. Says Talbott: "The first words that come to mind when you interact with John: energy, enthusiasm, focus...
LONDON: Home video host and sometime CNN call-in guest O.J. Simpson is taking his case overseas. In what's being proudly billed as his first public appearance since the verdict, Simpson will speak at England's venerable Oxford Union on May 14th. He will give an as yet unspecified speech to the Union and then take questions from students. TIME's Barry Hillenbrand reports that the Oxford Union notes that Richard Nixon also made his first public appearance at the Union after his resignation following the Watergate scandal. The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 and ranks among...
Sullivan, who attended Oxford and Harvard, had sought to broaden the magazine's audience, bringing in younger writers and running more stories on social and cultural trends as well as politics. He gave a forum to such provocative voices as Camille Paglia, author of a recent psychological hatchet job on Hillary Clinton titled Ice Queen, Drag Queen. Circulation crept up, from 94,000 to 100,000; more significant, advertising revenues increased...