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...profiles, newsy features and provocative photos (most notoriously, last year's cover photo of a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore), Brown brought Vanity Fair high profits and nearly 1 million readers. At the same time, she made herself a figure to reckon with on the Manhattan scene: good-looking, Oxford-educated, a sometime playwright, married to Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London and now head of Random House (yes, another Newhouse jewel...
Though the projections are far gloomier than those issued by the World Health Organization and the Harvard School of Public Health, they cannot be easily dismissed; the researchers, Roy Anderson of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and Robert May of Oxford, are highly respected. There are, however, legitimate questions about the study: for example, it presumes a higher level of sexual contact between older infected men and younger women than may actually occur. But even if it's accurate, some public-health officials would rather not know. Such gloomy talk, they fear, will persuade African governments...
...biggest impulse to the recent explosion, however, has been the end of the cold war. "The reason why the ethnic rivalries and aspirations surfaced so suddenly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is that till recently communism kept them in a time warp," says Oxford history professor Robert O'Neill. Tensions burst forth with explosive fury as soon as the lid of dictatorship was lifted...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell opened the first two new dormitories in the House system, which he based on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge in England. The original houses--Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell--were built specifically to look like the dormitories in Harvard yard. The campus had become more uniform, connected by architecturally unique buildings that blended together well...
Equally important is the need to boost the efficiency of lagging Russian industry through the acquisition of foreign technology. "As they try to rebuild their economy with even less money than before," notes Michael Kaser, the director of Oxford's Institute of Russian and Eastern European Studies, "it is more important to get free information instead of having to pay for it." Russia is targeting Western weapons systems, for example, in order to upgrade its surplus arms, which can then be sold abroad to earn desperately needed hard currency...