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...first stint at a major newspaper while at Oxford University, working summers at The New York Times' Paris bureau. With most of the other reporters covering strife in the Middle East, the young twenty-something's byline topped most of the Timesi Paris stories...
...bitter fight to reform it, moving it away from its tired socialist roots and forcing it to embrace elements of Thatcherism. As Prime Minister, he has embarked on a mission to modernize Britain and its politics. The grand design is not entirely clear. "He's not an ideologist," says Oxford University political scientist David Marquand, "but he wants an ideology. In a kind of intuitive way he knows what he's against and perhaps what he is for." Blair is utterly pragmatic. If it works, it's good, no matter whose idea it was. Blair has made no effort...
Like any good baby boomer, Bill Clinton wanted to have it both ways. He tried to be hip and square at the same time, and in a way he succeeded. At Oxford he protested against the Vietnam War (cool) and wrote a letter thanking a ROTC commander for helping him to avoid the draft and "maintain my political viability" (square). He's a President who wears blue jeans and cowboy boots (and looks good in them), revels in intricate discussions of domestic policy and may have an extracurricular love life...
...event went out over police band radio as a "chemical explosion," and that designation sent trucks and three rescue units from the Cambridge Fire Department to the building, located on the corner of Oxford and Cambridge streets near Memorial Hall...
...club dates back to a golden era of House crew in the 1930s, when President Lowell's original seven river Houses were new and participation in athletics was required. Lowell strove to create a college system modeled after that of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, to the extent of placing the new Houses on the river...