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Hughes' essay this week, The Fraying of America, is adapted from his lecture series at the New York Public Library titled "The Culture of Complaint," to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. The lectures were inspired by his unhappiness at efforts to remake U.S. school curriculums along politically correct lines. "What angers me is the herd instinct that leads people to suppose that European culture is the fount of all evils in the ^ world," says Hughes. "I don't believe...
...American Legion in Washington, and he got to visit the White House and meet President Kennedy. He came home starry-eyed and fixed on politics as his career. He enrolled at Georgetown University largely to be near the Congress he hoped one day to enter. Then came Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship, and Yale Law School, where he met the brightest woman in the class, Hillary Rodham -- today a successful lawyer and a feminist who did not call herself Mrs. Clinton until her unwillingness to do so began to hurt her husband politically...
...program was sponsored by the Oxford Society and the North American Offices of Oxford University as part of a plan to increase cooperation between Oxford University in England and top educational institutions in the United States. It comes as Oxford is in the midst of a worldwide capital campaign...
...epidemiologist Richard Peto, researchers at Oxford University pooled together the raw data from 133 studies conducted around the world on 75,000 women with operable breast cancer over the past four decades. Using a complex and unusual statistical process, they found that for women with early cancer, tamoxifen boosted 10-year survival rates from 71% to 75%. Although that kind of advance seems incremental, it translates into tens of thousands of lives each year...
...Oxford study was a milestone not only in breast-cancer research but also in the use of a new statistical technique called meta-analysis, which enables researchers to pool data from many studies and compare otherwise incomparable results. The technique was recently used in a major study revealing the benefits of aspirin in treating heart disease. "It is emerging as an important tool in medicine," says Dorr, and one that can be deployed without the considerable costs and risks of a large clinical trial...