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...highly successful website, a major international expansion--to say nothing of the fight with the government that provides much of its money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a former BBC producer. Commercial media rivals like News Corp, which controls the satellite-TV network Sky, vent that the BBC's subsidy gives it an unfair advantage with which to expand into their territory. "The BBC is probably under more hostile attack than it ever has been...
...this be to students who have mapped out the past 20 years of their lives to land themselves at Harvard, and have mapped out the next 20 years of their lives to land themselves at—pick a destination—Wall Street, The New York Times, Hollywood, Oxford? To accept the fact that I can’t control the content of my poker hand would open up the possibility that my carefully drawn plans for graduate school, careers, fame and a daughter named Molly are equally susceptible to the luck of the draw...
...hour flight but bright-eyed about starting four years in Cambridge. “It’s great here!” says Veljkovik, throwing up his hands with the sort of colorful body language characteristic of his Mediterranean heritage. “To Macedonians, Harvard and Oxford are the most famous universities in the world,” says Veljkovik. “I am really impressed with the opportunities here, by all the pamphlets handed out for everything—I think Harvard must be the biggest spender of paper in the world...
...many point to the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta as the ultimate achievement of their then-short Harvard careers. In England, the crew defeated two international teams and the Yale junior varsity lightweight crew on its way to knocking off a fearsome Oxford Brookes University squad in finals. The win, a come-from-behind victory, “exemplified the strength and confidence we had built by year’s end,” said Webb...
Some will attempt to join the crews in Oxford or Cambridge, they say, with hopes on serving on a national team sometime in the future. But now, they’re firmly focused on one thing...