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...life on the Mississippi River were the hit of the Whitney Biennial in New York City. In June, he was made a nominee of Magnum Photos - the first step to becoming a full member of the prestigious co-operative, and the photographic equivalent of landing a junior fellowship at Oxford University. Then, in August, his book Sleeping by the Mississippi was published to widespread acclaim (the Washington Post spoke reverently of Soth's "Old Master formality"). The next stop is England, where Soth's Mississippi exhibition runs at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until Jan. 29. Shot over five...
...Steelers turn things around? Roethlisberger deserves a lot of the credit. After starter Tommy Maddox tore a tendon early in the season, Cowher entrusted the team to the rookie, who had played three years at the other Miami University in the other Oxford (Ohio). Roethlisberger responded by leading the Steelers to back-to-back home victories against the then undefeated Patriots and Eagles, and he hasn't lost since. Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, who dishes out compliments about as often as Don Rickles, has called Roethlisberger the most impressive rookie quarterback since Dan Marino...
...biography is dramatic enough for a Bollywood epic: poor boy loses dad, hits the road, studies at Oxford, becomes star! He was born in Madras, on January 6, 1966, with a Bollywood star's soundalike name, A.S. Dileep Kumar. His musician father died when the boy was nine, and to support his family this precocious child left home to become a touring tyro musician with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain...
...Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing," says the Very Rev. John Drury, chaplain of All Souls' College at Oxford University. "You get it in a lot of the legends in Ovid where the god impregnates some young girl who has a miraculous...
Harvard is one of a handful of institutions in a joint venture with Google that could be the biggest development to hit the library since the card catalog went digital. Google’s pilot program—also underway at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Stanford University and the New York Public Library—will begin the daunting task of digitally scanning Harvard University Library’s (HUL) massive library holdings, beginning with some 40,000 volumes. This random selection of content from the Harvard Depository will soon be searchable online at Google Print?...