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Milner, of Montreal, Quebec, will study children’s mental health at Oxford on his Rhodes scholarship...
Mark P. Carthy, a general partner at the venture capital firm Oxford Bioscience Partners, says that in the past, he found many Harvard faculty “frankly didn’t care whether a company got started, didn’t care whether the technology got used...
...have it,” she says. “I came to Harvard to get legitimacy. But it deligitimizes me.” The special concentrator in urban planning has two paths laid out in front of her. Down one is another multi-million-dollar elite institution, Oxford University, where she would earn a second degree in African Studies. The other leads to the New Left Review, a leftist theory publication in London. She is undecided. In the meantime, she will return to Africa (the site of her last three summers) to conduct summertime research for a professor...
...important to people who are graduating—Darfur is important, climate change is important...Iraq is important, and he gets that.” The son of two college professors, Kristof came to Harvard from rural Yamhill, Oregon. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1981, he attended Oxford to study law on a Rhodes scholarship. His first Pulitzer, which he won jointly with his wife, came in 1990 for coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. According to Yiting Shen, a member of the KSG Class of 2007, the selection of a reporter who could...
...emphasize: "Service sector employees ... should be respected and valued, not written off," said Sir Digby Jones, former chief of the Confederation of British Industry. Skeptics suggest that the language used to describe such jobs will change when the conditions and prospects associated with those jobs change. But whether the Oxford English Dictionary changes its definition of McJob may depend on the outcome of this summer's word...