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...most discomfiting fashion revelation for first-time Lauren buyers may be his lofty prices: $67.50 for basic oxford-cloth shirts, $130 for terry-cloth bathrobes and $338 for cashmere sweaters. One aim of that upscale pricing strategy is to maintain consumer prestige. Cagey shoppers can pick up Lauren's seconds and overstocks for 30% to 70% discounts at his factory-outlet stores, which are situated in such discreet locales as Appleton, Wis., and Tijuana...
...London, Britain's once staid financial heart, events are exploding in most ungentlemanly fashion. Venerable brokerage houses that have dozed along contentedly almost since Edwardian times are merging or being snapped up by marauding U.S., Japanese or French financial institutions. Pinstripe City men who have known each other since Oxford or Cambridge days are rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting at the seams, as rapidly...
...graduated summa cum laude in the spring and won a Rhodes Scholarship. She will attend Oxford in the fall and study modern literature...
This was hardly the case with Harvard's birthday, however. Student representatives from over 30 universities from around the world were invited to come and join in the festivities in Cambridge. Dignitaries from Cambridge, Oxford and Paris's Sorbonne looked on at the Convocation like mature, experienced older siblings watching as a younger child abandoned its tottering baby steps and broke into a strong...
...Oxford University Press, whose famous anthologies have recently been diversifying from poetry into such novelties as The Oxford Book of Dreams and The Oxford Book of Death (not to mention The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes and The Oxford Book of New Zealand Plants), has now had the intriguing idea of compiling brief biographies of all 263 Popes (plus 39 antipopes) from St. Peter to John Paul II. It entrusted this enormous task to J.N.D. Kelly, an Anglican priest who has served as principal at Oxford's St. Edmund Hall and as canon of Chichester Cathedral, as well as chairman...