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Another potential threat is a boat from Oxford Brooks University. Oxford Brooks won the Temple Cup in both 1993 and 1995 and posted the cup record with a time...
...first term at Oxford, my father wrote and asked me to send him books by R.K. Narayan. The name was new to me. My father was a journalist. He also wrote stories, in English, about our rural Trinidad Indian community; and he was always on the lookout for Indian writers in whose work he might find encouragement. Narayan, writing in English about small people in a small south Indian town, would have been especially interesting for my father. I went to Blackwell's, the Oxford bookseller, and in the secondhand section found three Narayan titles. One was The Bachelor...
...WORLD WIDE WORDS www.worldwidewords.org LETTER MAN Edited by Michael Quinion, a researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary, this quirky, surprising site explains the meaning of obscure words (like astrobleme) and traces the origin of phrases...
...empowering concept, sure. But it's also a little, uh, freaky. Remember, I think to myself, that guy in 10th grade? With the sloppy long hair and regulation Oxford and those very, very piercing eyes? Remember his schedule, how you nervously ambled into the front office and flipped through the binder and memorized it so you could secretly coordinate that vital hall time? Remember wondering where he drove in that beat-up Volkswagen after soccer practice? Before he went home to West Springfield, zip code 22310? Technology changes, but not people. I didn't have a cell phone then; neither...
...bearing is quiet, but always lurking is the authority, of both his formidable intellect and his high office. In these moments, as he shows off his newly remodeled home, he becomes the Taiwanese Everyman--successful, middle class, proud of his detached home and little garden. His wire-frame glasses, oxford-cloth shirt and chinos give him the look of a millennial cyberpeasant. If he weren't President, his sartorial choices seem to say, he might have risen to run a chip-fabrication plant or dream up a B2B application...