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• Jihad amid the dreaming spires

  - 2007-07-07

  The chaos and fear wrought by Islamic extremism this week would, ordinarily, seem a thousand miles from what we call the 'Oxford bubble'. Shocking, of course, most students would say, but emerging from this latest essay crisis is of greater immediate worry. And until this term, I'd think you crazy...

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• Business steps up to support research.

  - 2006-09-28

  Byline: Ralph Cunningham Sep 28, 2006 (International Tax Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Mike Devereux has been appointed the inaugural director of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation. Previously with the University of Warwick, where he was professor of economics, Devereux takes...

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• Reading Islam

  - 2005-05-17

  PRIOR TO September 11, 2001, a substantial majority in the United States approached Islam with a strange kind of detailed ignorance. For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed images of violence, religious fanaticism, rejection of the modern world, mistreated women, and praying men bowing in the direction...

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• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2005-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

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