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...beauty of both ideas is that they are simple and local. "You can't tailor integration measures from the top down," says Steve Vertovec, director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at Oxford University. "Integration means building common ground rules on civility, and this happens on the local level. Cohesion is all about everyday interactions, in the supermarket or on the playground." Successful, long-lasting integration takes place in community clubs and children's play groups, bake sales and block parties. Programs don't have to be big or expensive; Kotler says Education Bradford runs its twinning scheme...
Even champions of evidence-based practice acknowledge that the approach has limits. "Some things can't be tested in randomized trials, and some things are so obvious, they don't need it," says Dr. Paul Glasziou, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, England. There have never been randomized trials to show that giving electrical shocks to a heart that has stopped beating saves more lives than doing nothing, for example. Similarly, giving antibiotics to treat pneumonia has never been rigorously tested from a scientific point of view. It's clear to everyone, however, that...
...move aimed at bolstering British higher education, the British government announced plans this week to increase the endowments of elite schools like Oxford and Cambridge Universities to rival the savings of their American counterparts. Under the plan, every two pounds donated to a university by alumni, philanthropists or businesses will be matched by one pound from public funds, up to £2 million ($3.9 million). British government and higher education officials hope the scheme will entice universities to more aggressively solicit donations from private sources, including alumni—largely considered an untapped resource. Presently, even elite schools...
...June of 1860, less than a year after the publication of Darwin’s “The Origin of Species,” Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, and biologist Thomas Huxley addressed the claims of the controversial book in a highly publicized debate. Wilberforce, speaking first, ended his oration by asking Huxley whether his apish ancestors were to be found on his mother’s or his father’s side. Huxley’s reply, now a cocktail party quotable for Darwinists the world over, was no less uncompromising...
...first such belief, it seems, is that a novel about Hitler should be engrossing and disturbing, viscerally appealing, and morally horrifying from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens the novel in a mode that borders on the farcical, with his narrator focusing on such topics as incest and monorchidism (speaketh the Oxford English Dictionary: “The condition of having only one testis, or only one descended testis”). Thanks, Norm!It’s a mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler...