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...past. Earlier in the campaign, those phantoms popped up in the form of Gennifer Flowers, marijuana use and questions about the draft. Last week the poltergeists were back on center stage, as an increasingly desperate George Bush attacked Clinton for protesting the Vietnam War while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1969 and for visiting Moscow in early 1970 during a school break. In terms that recalled the red-baiting tactics of the McCarthy era, Bush told CNN talk-show host Larry King that Clinton should "level with the American people on the draft, on whether he went to Moscow...
...example. Five brain-dead members of an unknown California trash metal band suddenly find themselves splashed all over MTV. Or take Tony Gubba, our new British columnist obsessed with American popular culture and shitty sitcoms. "Tony" (not his real name) came to Harvard by way of Oxford (outta nowhere, for all practical purposes), borrowed an English game show host's moniker and nowadays audits classes and bemoans the dearth of curse words on U.S. television. So sit back, and never mind the ants crawling all over the Square or all over this magazine. You're stuck with them...
...Marijuana. He always handled the drug-use question by insisting, "I never broke the laws of my country." Only in a debate before the New York primary was Clinton pressed on whether he had ever used drugs abroad. The answer: a confession that he had taken a puff at Oxford, coupled with that now famous -- and widely doubted -- exculpatory phrase "I didn't inhale...
Stanford already has similar study-abroad programs in several cities, including Florence, Oxford, Paris and Kyoto...
Duke flew her into Durham, North Carolina tovisit the campus and "made a huge effort" toconvince her to enroll, including a freebasketball game. Morrow currently attends Duke ona full scholarship, which includes a specialsummer program at Oxford University...