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This year's series is titled "The Burden of Memory and the Muse of Remission." It is co-sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies, the Du Bois Institute on Afro-American Research, and Oxford University Press...
According to Susan Chang, an editor at Oxford Press, the British publisher will release a book based on the lecture series next year...
...picky. Bradley has been named a contributor for the news division. It's something of a backdoor move for the man whose first job in the 1960s was as a radio reporter for CBS in St. Louis, Missouri, and who sent back reports while he was at Oxford. "I'm going to focus on the changing circumstances in this country and the situations that bring out the best in people," says Bradley. "I'm definitely not going to be talking about what went on in Washington this week." Nothing about Washington? "Well," he relents, "maybe about the cherry blossoms...
...want to disseminate the idea that male virginity is acceptable, we have to move away from our historical obsession that defines virginity as a strictly feminine phenomenon. We must start defining virginity in a gender neutral sense. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the foremost authority on the English language, demonstrates the entrenchment of our association of virginity with females. According to the OED, a virgin is "an unmarried or chaste maiden, distinguished for piety or steadfastness in religion." The OED's second definition of virgin as "a woman (esp. a young woman) who is, or remains, in a state...
...undergraduate years from later pursuits, the more pragmatic we can expect those pursuits to be. When we enjoy one extreme now, we must recognize that we simultaneously invite the other one later. While Harvard enforces the distinction between academic pursuits and career training in its undergraduate course of study, Oxford merely chooses to take the same stand with respect to graduate studies...