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...DIED. PATRICK LICHFIELD, 66, society photographer and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. After inheriting a title he never used, the 5th Earl of Lichfield quit the army in 1962 for a career as a fashion photographer during London's "Swinging Sixties." Lichfield's glossy lifestyle, high-profile romantic liaisons and 1986 divorce never cost him the loyalty of the Royal Family, which employed him to take many official portraits...
...firms, both in Washington, D.C., focusing on civil and constitutional litigation. He served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A former resident of Leverett House, Heineman was editorial chairman of The Crimson during his undergraduate years. After studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, he attended Yale Law School and later served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart. He has written books on British race relations and the American presidency as well as numerous articles. Heineman said he wants to stay involved in legal policy...
...several publishers and two pending copyright-infringement lawsuits. The initiative, “Google Print,” is a multi-year project to digitalize the contents of five of the world’s largest research libraries, including Harvard’s. Stanford, the University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library have also partnered with Google on the effort. In August, Google temporarily halted the scanning of works that are under copyright protection but said that scanning would resume on Nov. 1. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that scanning would resume soon at Stanford...
...remembers his first stabs at authorship – “writing poems was the ‘cool thing’ at boarding school… unfortunately I was writing Wordsworthian sonnets when everyone else was on to free verse” – and then Oxford, where he admits staying “far too long” first studying, then teaching, then spending “the last year on the dole” doing little for the school, but sharing ideas (and rooms) with Andrew Motion, now UK Poet Laureate.Not surprisingly, nearly...
...drink extremely small cups of coffee that are doubtless incredibly strong. Possibly his hair is highlighted. HAP-Q: 532.8 (Heterosexual, but available only to Victoria Beckham)The Academic Metrosexual: This genus is also a common type, normally personified by grad students in the English Department. These men sometimes wear oxford shirts, which can be paired with sweaters and/or dark wash jeans. Their bags, which probably contain Rimbaud and Jack Daniels, are strikingly large and resemble overgrown purses. Sometimes Academic Metrosexuals don’t shave and often their hair is slightly too asymmetrical or long to be fashionable. They...