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...debates, scheduled to begin in April, are modelled after the Oxford Union, a forum at Oxford University that has produced such notable politicians as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was president of the society. Members face one another in formal debates over civic questions, the Harvard organizers said...
...hairdresser and assorted others. With her nearest and dearest, Sarah fends off recriminations by going on the offense. She hectors her husband about his affairs with his nurses and the upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin in the sun: "I was shocked to see how brown you were...
White remained active in other sports, but her main focus was on hockey-several times a week. She played for the girls' team in her school, Kingswood-Oxford, and on weekends she played on the West Hartford community boys' league. And sometimes she played on West Hartford's traveling team...
...altered should Mzee Juu expire in London, where he spends three months of the year in a Chelsea flat with his 92-year-old housekeeper. He is a member of The Travellers, one of London's more exclusive clubs, and many of his friends are dons at Oxford, his alma mater...
Thesiger's greatest adventures came after the war in the vast deserts of southern Arabia, where for five years he traveled with the Bedouin. They receive his highest praise: "I knew I could not match them in physical endurance, but, with my family background, Eton, Oxford, the Sudan Political Service, I did perhaps think I would match them in civilized behaviour." That they do not make men like Thesiger anymore is obvious. That men like Thesiger were always as rare as water beds in the Sahara is gloriously evident in his proud and courtly autobiography...