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...Gerson ’74 is, at present, an unhappy man. The secretary of the American Rhodes Trust, responsible for directing each year’s selection process and serving as the sole institutional representative of Oxford’s American Rhodes community, he is closer to the scholarship and the scholars than anyone else. Though dismissive of the media uproar—attributing it to the fact that Oxbridge has long been “under the Labor government’s microscope”—his profound disappointment in the op-ed’s authors...
...winning team will receive a $10,000 scholarship and IBM ThinkPads for each of its members...
...year at a boys' Catholic boarding school in the Volta region, one of the best in Ghana. The family cannot afford to pay the school fees (some $600 a year), but two years ago, Suzzy convinced her pastors at Global Evangelical that her son was gifted and deserved a scholarship. Grandfather Kwame paid the $150 entrance fee, and Delight was handed the best chance in years of securing the family's prosperity...
DIED. Arthur Schlesinger, 89, vibrant, unabashedly liberal presidential historian who became a player in his own area of scholarship as a special White House assistant to his friend John F. Kennedy; in New York City. A bow-tied intellectual and dedicated Washington partygoer, he drew fire from critics who said he perpetuated the image of Camelot while gliding over Kennedy's political and personal missteps. Still, his more than 20 books, on subjects from F.D.R. to Nixon, influenced political debate for decades and won him two Pulitzer Prizes: the first, at age 28, for his fresh take on Andrew Jackson...
...opinion piece titled “Oxford Blues” that was published in The Crimson on Feb. 25, Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05 cautioned current Harvard juniors to “think twice before attending the Rhodes scholarship information session.” In the article, the pair expressed disenchantment with Oxford’s “outdated academic system,” the “less than inspiring” library collections, high costs, and the 5 p.m. closing times of coffee shops. The American Secretary...