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...Wheeler says. “The drill sergeant is on you from the minute you wake up to the minute you go to sleep, and nothing you do is ever good enough.” On Dec. 8, 2005, Wheeler was officially made an officer after graduating from the Oxford Training School in the top 10 percent of his class. Now stationed in El Paso, Texas, Wheeler is settling into a more comfortable routine. “Once you’re done for the day, you’re a civilian again,” says Wheeler...
...anti-Semitism.” The technical term in rhetoric for such a change in the meaning of a word is catachresis: “the application of a term to a thing which it does not properly denote or the perversion of a trope or metaphor” (Oxford English Dictionary).The catachresis of anti-Semitism at Harvard begins with President Summers’ 2002 denunciation of colleagues who signed an anti-Israel divestment petition as being, basically, anti-Semites. Certainly the anti-Israel divestment movement was and remains obnoxious, but not for the reasons the Summers partisans suppose...
...match his new enormous responsibilities," a local bbc reporter wrote in an online profile. But could one man take on Kenya's Big Men and force change? The answer, after enough twists and turns to fill a novel, turns out to be yes. Githongo may now live in Oxford, England - testament to the danger he says he faces in Kenya - and his evidence of widespread corruption may have been ignored for almost two years by the government for which he once worked, but the big man is finally shaking things up. Over the past month Githongo, a fastidious diary keeper...
...issues - the case for an open economy, a need to reform public services, an admiration of most things American - they are cut from the same cloth. "People forget that Brown was a founder of New Labour, as Blair was," says Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford University. Any differences that emerge between the two men, Bogdanor continues, will be "ones of emphasis and style rather than anything fundamental." Cameron, for his part, has learned from Blair's assiduous courting of the "middle ground" of politics, and has spent the last three months talking about the need to relieve poverty...
...Oxford University’s Chancellor will embark on a visit to India next month in an attempt to advertise Oxford University as an alternative to Harvard and other Ivy League universities. Chancellor Christopher Francis Patten said in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) that Oxford needed to increase its recruiting efforts to stay competitive with American schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Noting that Oxford was “falling further and further behind” U.S. universities in recruiting top international talent, Patten said that all schools need to have a thorough strategy to target prospective...