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Every two years, Oxford and Cambridge put together a team to challenge Harvard and Yale in the world’s oldest continuing international intercollegiate competition, dating back to 1894. The location alternates for each meet, and this year it will be held in England. On both sides, traditional rivals come together as teammates in a historic U.S. versus UK meet. This June, the teams will compete to claim the Naughton Trophy, won by Harvard-Yale in the most recent competition...
...mountaineering expedition. Rory Stewart, on the other hand, gets fitted out on Savile Row. Settling into a tattered armchair in the Afghan capital's Gandamak bar-named after the battlefield where British troops were defeated by the Afghans in 1842 during the first Anglo-Afghan war-the Eton and Oxford alumnus looks and sometimes sounds like an unreconstructed colonial nawab. He clasps his hands behind his head, exposing a pair of malachite cufflinks that glitter against gleaming white cuffs. "The secret to a good suit," he muses, "is using a heavy wool fabric. It keeps the shape much better...
...risks, and most Fujianese migrants are only one degree removed from the person they will pay to get them abroad. "This isn't like cocaine, where there's one boss in Colombia who directs the whole business," says Frank Pieke, the director of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University, who has written a book on Fujianese migration to Europe. "Instead, you have a very loose network of independent people with close local connections. This creates a sense of trust that results in stable commercial transactions...
Cambridge eventually finished in 17:49, Oxford in 17:52, breaking Oxford’s two-year winning streak and bringing Cambridge’s lead in the series overall to 79 over Oxford’s 73, with one dead heat...
Favorites Cambridge eventually sealed their success in the 4.25-mile race by one-and-a-quarter-lengths, but not before an initial lead from the Dark Blues that had hopes high amongst its supporters of an Oxford hat-trick, and gave the Cambridge boat a narrower margin of victory than had been predicted...