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They will study for two or three years at Oxford University in fields as varied as Victorian literature and biophysics...
...never in a million years would have thought I would be in this position,” Meng said. “I finally decided to go with Rhodes, in part because Oxford has a more fitting program in Victorian literature, but also because if I take the Rhodes, someone else will be able to take my place on the Marshall...
...Sunday, Nov. 17, an anxious crowd waited in a line starting from Science Center D—and extending into Oxford Street—before the people were told they had to leave. The disappointed pack, many of whom had traveled from all over Boston to see electronic sound artists Matmos (a.k.a. Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt) perform that night, missed the premier event in the Office for the Arts’ latest Learning From Performers program...
...Crimson told this story as a talk show would, revealing little details at which the audience at home could snicker mercilessly—details that are not worth reporting, and details that are clearly the manifestations of a disordered mind: a job at Chase Manhattan, studies at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge consecutively, a bag full of tailored business clothing. The article resulted in a mockery of this woman and of her disorder by cross-checking her clearly delusional reports to the alumni newsletters, reporting them as fact, and then exposing her lies as though they could have ever been believed...
Rawls’ contribution to his profession earned him mountains of praise: an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Harvard, a National Humanities Medal, professorships at presitigious universities across America, all beginning with a Fulbright Scholarship at Oxford. But more than any of the honors and esteem that Rawls earned, his lasting legacy will be immortalized in the students whose intellectual and moral lives he shaped with his teaching, mentoring and advising...