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...play opens as Gordon, a shy bartender played with candor and sensitivity by Andrew Barth, is writing a personals ad. He is, in the playwright's own words, a "narrator left in the dark." Like Will Self's hermaphroditic Oxford don, Gordon is a postmodern creation. Recently, it has become deceptively easy to label anything vaguely eccentric as postmodern. But The Wombs of Angel Street, with its rejection of cause-effect linearity and its characters' use of subjective imagination to recreate reality, clearly embraces some of the genre's conventions...
...Supreme Court agreed to hear a case today that could put zoning laws on the chopping block. The court agreed to decide whether federal fair housing laws allow cities to bar some group homes from single-family neighborhoods. The case from Washington state involves Oxford House, a group home for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, established in 1990 in an area zoned for single family homes. City officials took Oxford House to court charging that it violated the city zoning code. But Oxford House called this a form of discrimination that federal fair-housing laws prohibit. A lower court...
...care where he went to school," Nini said. "I don't care if he's a graduate of Oxford, for crying out loud. He was browsing too long and we don't allow that...
Another assault on nearby Oxford St., also by 5-7 males, was reported at the exact same time...
...been transformed from a purely economic institution to a political one, Britain has been slow to adapt, said Lord Roy Jenkins, chancellor of Oxford University...