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...dustheap. In New Orleans, for example, Jefferson Davis Elementary has become Ernest N. Morial Elementary, named after the city's first black mayor. Two weeks ago, the New Orleans City Council voted to dismantle the Liberty Monument, a granite obelisk to white supremacy. The Ole Miss faculty in Oxford, Mississippi, passed a resolution seeking to end the playing of Dixie at school events. In Memphis, Tennessee, black activists may soon try to remove from a city park the bronze statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
Freeh was not the first person the President considered, nor is he a member of the President's circle of friends. But after Clinton's original choice, Massachusetts State Judge Richard Stearns, an old Oxford buddy, withdrew from contention, Freeh came so highly recommended to the White House that no one else was ever seriously considered...
Fulwiler was interviewed Friday in the Gilbert laboratory on the fourth floor of the biological laboratory building at 16 Oxford St. The doctor, who has retained laboratory privileges during the investigation, worked on the Macintosh computer in room 186 for the duration of the five minute interview...
...scores or any standard I.Q. test score will do. Mensa says it provides a "stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members." In fact there are dozens of special-interest groups, on everything from personal investing to Andrew Lloyd Webber. The original mission of Mensa, which was formed at Oxford University in 1946, was to "bring highly intelligent people together to help solve the world's problems." If this year's gathering is any indication, however, that purpose has evolved into something quite different: to bring highly intelligent people together to help them get dates. And to that end, Mensa...
...Harvard Facilities Maintenance department called the Cambridge Fire Department, as chemistry department regulations require. The fire department ordered Mallinckrodt evacuated and Oxford Street blocked off from the Science Center to the Hoffmann laboratories, said Henry S. Littleboy, health and safety officer in the faculty of arts and sciences environmental health and safety office...