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...Rhodes: The Rhodes gives students from all over the world the opportunity to spend two years at any one of Great Britain's many fine universities: Oxford and Cambridge. These schools are almost exactly like Harvard, only their Deans of Students are English men with fake American accents...
...November 1969 Strobe Talbott, then working on his thesis at Oxford, was summoned by TIME's Moscow bureau chief, Jerrold Schecter, for whom Talbott had worked as an intern the previous summer, and handed a pile of Russian typescript to translate. "After reading several pages," says Talbott, now editor at large, "I knew that I had in my hands one of the most fascinating and unusual documents ever to emerge from the Soviet Union." The papers, published in 1970 as the book Khrushchev Remembers, were transcripts of tapes recorded by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in forced retirement...
...Oxford English Dictionary gives a quote from P. G. Woodhouse: "The flush on the little man's face darkened. `Are you trying to get gay with me?' he demanded dangerously." In 19th century England the term "gay" was applied--"with grim inappositeness," as one source puts it, to female prostitutes. Robert G. Davis...
Personal background: Weld was born in Smithtown, N.Y., the son of an investment banker. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Susan Roosevelt, and their five children. He has an undergraduate degree and a law degree from Harvard. He also holds a diploma in economics and political science from Oxford University...
Student Jonathan Petropoulos--donning a preppy blue Oxford dress shirt, khakis, and black penny loafers--agreed...