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...appointed as dean Graham T. Allison '62, a Ph.D. in government and Marshall scholar at Oxford who had previously served as the school's associate dean. At 37, Allison became Harvard's youngest dean, though he had initially declined Bok's offer in part because of the school's financial difficulties...
...jurisprudence of original intention without history is a frequently destroyed, annihilated Phoenix," said Ronald Dworkin, law professor at Oxford and New York University Law School...
...tactfully enquire if Charles is willing to trade a Mastership at Oxford for a slightly battered soul and a vat of broccoli-cheese pasta...
Like the Kennedy assassination, the KAL incident has created a cottage industry of conspiracy theorists. R.W. Johnson, a politics don at Oxford University, has written Shootdown, which offers the hypothesis that the flight was a surveillance mission designed by the CIA to test Soviet radar capabilities. But Johnson provides no direct evidence for this theory other than that it "fits -- or can be made to fit -- just about all the known facts about the 007 tragedy." David Pearson, a doctoral candidate at Yale, has argued in the Nation magazine that top U.S. officials must have known at the time that...
...year by his Defense Minister, Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, it seemed peace might be restored. But before long, the fighting resumed. In May the first national election since 1968 brought to power Sadiq el Mahdi, leader of the moderate Muslim Umma Party. Making peace his top priority, the Oxford-educated Sadiq lost no time in arranging a meeting in Ethiopia with Garang, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Iowa State. Yet the two leaders could not concur on terms for a cease-fire. Last week Sadiq agreed to repeal the September laws within ten days...