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...House of Commons was at last demanding a whip hand over the House of Lords, and Their Lordships with embattled obstinacy would not yield. They had haughtily rejected the Commons' so-called "People's Budget" championed by liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, later the Earl of Oxford & Asquith, and were arrayed against the radical proviso to impose an extreme tax on income and property of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, whose ungentlemanly Limehouse speeches at this time were all about "our dissolute dukes...
...driven stories have won her legions of fans. At age 11, Ethan Denny in Athens, Ga., wrote her to say she made him "feel that you are sitting next to me reading the books aloud." To date, Hakim's books have sold more than 4 million copies. According to Oxford University Press, which published her 10-volume American-history series, A History of US, her texts are used in thousands of classrooms in nearly every state. She has been called the J.K. Rowling of textbooks...
...Kremlin regards countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus as vital buffers between Russia and the West. Like Russian rulers for the past two centuries, Putin "equates security with well-defined zones of interest," says James Sherr, an Eastern Europe specialist at Oxford Uni-versity. Those zones have shrunk in recent years as the Baltic states and Georgia turned sharply toward the West. Putin doesn't want to see the same thing happen in Ukraine...
...initiative, set to be announced today, will allow anyone on the internet to browse through uploaded works as part of the Google Print project, an arm of Google. The University of Michigan, Oxford University, Stanford University and the New York Public Library are also participating in similar programs to be announced today...
...After Oxford, Xu is unsure what he will do. “In the short run, I am looking to keep my options open. Maybe I will continue studying [or] maybe I’ll work after my time at Oxford,” said...