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...basketball teams, though she claims she is "really bad" at the latter two sports ("They were desperate for people," she explains, "that's why they picked me.") The English concentrator and Eliot House resident, who plans to return to Guam eventually, will spend her next two years at Oxford on a Rotary scholarship...
...comes up as the prime counterexample to the demand of constituency for high-ranking ministers. In one famous episode, the Labour leader in the House of Lords (at a time when Carrington was Tory leader) was debating the abolishment of the House with a left-wing opponent at the Oxford Union, and one of the leftist's most effective arguments for the abolition of Lords was that it would allow Carrington to be Prime Minister...
...foriegn policy while avoiding confrontation with the Prime Minister on domestic issues. Some take issue with that analysis, however. "The simplistic image that he ran foreign policy for three years is not as true as it sounds," asserts Sullivan, a new-school Conservative who was president of the Oxford Union as an undergraduate...
Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed (after 29 years) supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: "When we reached zilch and zillionaire, it was like having the finishing tape in sight in a marathon...
After 17 years of military control, Sudan once again has a democratically elected Prime Minister. He is Sadiq el Mahdi, 50, the Oxford-educated head of the Umma Party and the great-grandson of the mahdi, Mohammed Ahmed, who defeated the British General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon at Khartoum...