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While the first and second varsity rowers were the first two Harvard boats to claim crowns on Sunday, it was the freshman eight that stole the show by upsetting the favored Oxford Brookes first varsity eight to win the Temple Challenge Cup—an event open to collegiate crews that have not previously won Henley titles...
...August 25, Oxford University will publish "Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America" by former Senator Gary Hart. Says Kirkus, "Scholarly dissertation meets populist manifesto in politico Hart's case for increased citizen involvement in government...Despite some pie-in-the-sky elements, the argument merits discussion, and the prescriptions are delivered coherently and effectively...
...advice on topics ranging from household problems, such as how to hang a toilet-paper roll, to sexual inquiries, such as what to do about cross-dressing husbands. It reached an estimated 90 million people daily through 1,200 publications. DIED. LIONEL BERNSTEIN, 82, a white antiapartheid activist; in Oxford, England. Bernstein stood trial for sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect. DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World...
...Pursued by government soldiers, Khoo Thwe and fellow students flee into the jungle to join ethnic insurgents on the Thai-Burma border, enduring both disease and terrifying assaults by the Burmese army. Yet, even as enemy mortars explode nearby, Khoo Thwe pores over his treasured copy of The New Oxford Book of English Verse, an anomalous scene he compares to "reading the New Testament in a brothel...
...year tenure as president transformed Harvard from a backwater seminary to an academy on par with England’s great universities at Oxford and Cambridge...