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The Death of Planet Finance | Open Culture

British historian Niall Ferguson has achieved the academic holy trinity, holding positions at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Only 44 years old, he has 9 books to his credit (including a new one: The Ascent of Money: ...

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year: ‘hypermiling ...

For the third year running, the Oxford English Dictionary has selected a green-themed term as its word of the year.

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Oxford checking into ‘Jewish girl’ party | JTA - Jewish & Israel News

Oxford University is investigating its rugby team for throwing a party with anti-Semitic themes.

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The Oxford students have nothing better to do with their time, I guess. Why not spend the time dealing with tolerance and human understanding. They need to take sensitivity classes, then go back and have a party making fun of themselves ...

Law Librarian Blog: Law Firms Adopting Library Culture?

(Oxford University Press, Dec. 2008) shares his thoughts on what today's law firms must do to survive in tomorrow's legal world. Susskind's advice is somewhat counter-intuitive. You'd think that in a world where competition will stiffen ...

Young actors join culture celebrations (From Oxford Mail)

A group of young actors are set to be the face of Oxford as it helps celebrate the end of Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture.

Obama Profiled in Oxford African American Studies Center « LibraryBuzz

To mark a very special moment in our nation’s history, the Oxford African American Studies Center has been updated to commemorate Barack Obama’s groundbreaking victory in this year’s presidential election. ...

Theatre Opera News & Reviews « Oxfordprospect.co.uk - Oxford News

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portland imc - 2008.11.13 - culture jamming with food not bombs

are you tired of not being heard by mainstream media, and the culture at large? culture jamming is an easy method of getting your message out there in simple, concise, and often perfectly legal ways. wouldn't it be great to get together ...

Diverse Culture At The Extreme In London

Oxford street is generally known as the finest shopping street in great britain. The street has topshop's renowned flagship store, as well as a massive Selfridges, which was established there in 1909. recently, a massive Primark store ...

thebahamasweekly.com - Oxford Business Group to produce "The ...

Oxford Business Group (OBG), the global research and consultancy firm, has announced its plans to publish The Report: THE BAHAMAS 2009, the newest edition of its influential worldwide guides to countries to be released in the Spring of ...

Decoding the Obama Victory: The Geography of US Presidential ...

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Oxford Scholars Name Top Ten Irritating Phrases

In a new forthcoming book, A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare, Oxford researchers list the common phrases that we use incorrectly or just all too excessively. Here’s the list (and if you have your own disliked expressions, ...

Tell Oxford not to create lecture series in Peres’ honor « Body on ...

Objections to the HTS programme range from the inherent secrecy of mission-oriented research to, as eminent anthropologist Marshall Sahlins observes, "manipulating local culture, imposing [our government's objectives] on them, ...


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