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...Declaration says, "scholars know nothing about how he acquired the breadth and depth of knowledge displayed in the works." And so doubting scholars look to well-traveled writers and aristocrats - essayist Francis Bacon; poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe; theater patron Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford - as the more likely candidates...
...said," says Mulugeta over breakfast. "What right has he got to be so paternalistic as to tell African leaders how to behave? My God, if he wants to ever come back here, he'll have to apologize." Mulugeta is a distinguished looking 56-year-old, with an exemplary Oxford English accent to match his pinstripe suit. He is also one of the organizers of the millennium celebrations. When he says of Geldof, "I don't think we'll be seeing him," that's more policy than wish...
...mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy," says Elyn Saks, the author of The Center Cannot Hold (Hyperion). It's hard to argue with that. While Saks has soared to the top of academia - a graduate degree from Oxford, a law degree from Yale, and a tenured professorship at the University of Southern California - she has also been shackled and involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. Saks, 52, has schizophrenia, a chronic brain disorder that affects one in a hundred Americans. People with schizophrenia (which affect men and women equally) sometimes suffer from hallucinations, delusions...
...were a Marshall scholar at Oxford University in England. You write that your life began to unravel there. What happened...
...first two years I was ill at Oxford, I had no friends at all. It was very painful. I was unable to work. Somehow my analysis with Mrs. Jones [her psychoanalyst] in England interrupted those kind of negative symptoms, and I became able again to work and make friends. To me, friends have been one of the main things that have kept me doing well. But in terms of romantic relationships, when I became ill, I went seven years without a single date. I was so tortured by my internal demons that there was no space for another person...