Word: oxfords
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...downside, his very identity remains in question. Harper's Magazine this month produced an entire issue on the question of "Is Shakespeare Really Shakespeare?" To those of you wondering who he might be if he's not himself, there is a sizeable group of fans of the Earl of Oxford who claim that a country guy from Stratford couldn't possibly have written all that good stuff. Oxford, on the other hand, though he died before the believed publication dates of several of the plays, was an aristocrat supposedly better equipped to write the kind of masterpieces we have today...
...Oxford Street, which closed to cars March 24 due to safety concerns about deteriorating pipes under the asphalt, will probably be reopened in three weeks, according to Interim City Engineer Owen C. O'Riordan...
...building, slated to be built between Oxford and Divinity Avenues, makes up a significant part of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles' $200 million commitment to improving the sciences at Harvard...
Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His latest book is Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton Mifflin). This essay was adapted from his introduction to Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine (Oxford University Press...
Dawkins' memes have proved nearly as controversial as Darwin's ideas about natural selection once were. Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine (Oxford University Press), which goes so far as to suggest that we are our memes, is sure to escalate the war of words that periodically rages on the pages of the New York Review of Books and the Boston Review...