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...that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford, where he also took a master’s degree, Booker attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship before attending Yale for law school. In 2002, Booker made his first run for mayor of Newark, losing narrowly to a veteran machine politician who painted Booker as a “carpetbagger.” After briefly leaving politics to build a legal practice, Booker...
...Richardson said. “There are no economic barriers to gaining a first-rate education, but the institution has to be more creative in finding other sources of funding.” In recent years, funding problems have plagued higher education in Britain. Last week, the University of Oxford began a $2.5 billion fundraising drive in order to revitalize its programs, while Cambridge began a $2 billion campaign in 2005. Homi K. Bhabha, a senior advisor in the humanities at Radcliffe, said that he was not surprised to hear of Richardson’s appointment, as she is much...
...then went on to teach at several Ivy League colleges and served as a fellow at Wolfson College at Oxford...
...After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard, Kozol attended Magdalen College at Oxford, but left early for Paris. There, MacLeish introduced the young writer to the more seasoned expatriates Richard Wright and William Styron, among others...
Despite the severity of the situation at the Oxford, Miss. campus, Kennedy tried to lighten up his aides through jokes. “I haven’t had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs,” Kennedy said on the tape...