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...Shadowlands The oddest of couples -- an emotionally choked Oxford don and a high-spirited American poet -- find a transforming moment of happiness as they confront her imminent demise. Richard Attenborough's film gains strength from the sterling performances of Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger as the live-and-learn lovers...
...moment he began telling journalists last year that Clinton was lying about the draft, Cliff Jackson has been out to harpoon the President. The question is why. Surprisingly, the two have much in common. Both were overachievers who grew up in small Arkansas towns; both won scholarships to Oxford; they even served as co-captains on the same basketball team. Yet despite their similarities, Jackson and Clinton never became close: although Clinton today is said to remember Jackson as ''a nice guy,'' a member of the President's Oxford coterie says Jackson was ''not even in the third circle...
...hodgepodge of athletic teams, blockmates, social clubs, and tightly-knit student groups. Then come second-tier student groups, after that cultural or religious affiliations, and, only then, the Houses. One is almost embarrassed to introduce a friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard you are more likely to be identified by your cliquish social club or cutthroat political group. There is little community, little sense of shared space...
...named the best university in the world for the second year running by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in rankings released last week. The British publication’s rankings placed American institutions in 12 of the top 20 slots. MIT came in second ahead of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Stanford University. All those universities were ranked higher this year than last, when THES first issued its rankings. University of California, Berkeley, ranked second last year, fell four spots to number six in this year’s edition. The rankings were based on a several criteria including...
...logic of business and has always felt that there is a place for it in the gentler field of healing. The son of Ghanaian academics, he was born in Wisconsin, reared in Tanzania and Kenya, and earned degrees in medicine and public health at Harvard and an M.B.A. at Oxford. After graduating, he followed his business bent and took a job at McKinsey & Co., the big New York City management-consulting firm. But that didn't mean he left the medical world behind. The field of medicine, after all, is really about product distribution--that product being good health...