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...party apparatchiks. He dismissed two-thirds of the city's 33 district party secretaries and berated officials for wearing imported watches, suits and shoes. When, in a meeting, one of them asked truculently where he bought his own shoes, a furious Yeltsin yanked off a well-worn oxford, held it in the air and shouted: "In Sverdlovsk, locally made at the Ural Shoe Factory for 23 rubles. I recommend them - they will last you a five-year plan...
...junior Clara Blattler placed first in the pole vault with a clear at 3.65 meters.Senior Julia Pederson’s measure of 43.58 meters in the javelin gave Harvard another first-place finish.Also up for grabs in the 109th installment of this meet were spots at the biennial Oxford-Cambridge challenge, an international competition pitting the individual winners from Harvard and Yale against their rivals from across the pond. In addition to upcoming regional and national championships, this summer competition provides extra incentive for the top finishers of this weekend’s meet to continue their rigorous training.After...
...added that it was particularly impressive, considering that superior talent, how long the Oxford boat had held its own against it and threatened Cambridge’s success...
Kosmicki was not available because he is doing his final exams at the moment, but Buckland said that he was permitted to say on his teammate’s behalf that “rowing at Oxford is deadly”—in a good...
...this “serious intellectual history” that seems to drive Nusseibeh’s belief in a unique Palestinian identity as opposed to the Pan-Arabist beliefs his father expresses. Nusseibeh characterizes himself more as an academic than as a politician or activist. He studied at Oxford, Harvard, and Birzeit university in Ramallah, and is now the president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Yet Nusseibeh somehow manages to evade every role into which he might be cast. As a child of Arab nobility, he chooses to marry an Englishwoman. As a Muslim studying Muslim texts...