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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...

  Tags: Government, Iran, professor, U.S., University of Oxford

• 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,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Government, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Mandela, Rhodes - what do they have in common?

  - 2003-08-01

  SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE The seventh Will of Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch colonialist left, created an educational grant known as the 'Rhodes Scholarship' in 1902, But in recent weeks, hairs have been torn over the addition of the Mandela name to the Rhodes Foundation. Shingai Rukwata Ndoro reports....

  Tags: Government, Leadership, scholar, scholarship, SOFTWARE, Transportation, U.S., University of Oxford

• New Book in Oxford Portraits Series.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-03-01

  Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, by Naomi Pasachoff. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. ISBN: 0-19-512222-4, 160 pp. $22. This new biography for young adult readers covers the professional career of Frances Perkins from her time as a social worker lobbyist to ...

  Tags: CAREER, Government, lobbyist, secretary, U.S., University of Oxford