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Last week, 32 young Americans won Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his scholarships—and specifically his vision that young people of outstanding intellect, leadership, and ambition could make the world a better place...
...Rhodes Scholars; it was simply on few scholars’ radar. And those who did make such a choice, including myself, usually did so after beginning a different career. Only three of the 320 American Rhodes Scholars in the ’70s went directly into business from Oxford; by the late ’80s the number grew to that many each year. And, recently, more than twice as many entered that field in just one year as did in the entire decade...
...over a century Rhodes Scholars have left Oxford to begin their careers. Given their records, virtually any jobs have been available to them. For most of that history, they have overwhelmingly chosen paths in scholarship, teaching, writing, medicine, scientific research, law, and military and public service. They have reached the highest levels in virtually all fields, from prize-winning novelists to a U.S. president...
...There was Obama's famous comment in the primaries when he was asked if he would sit down with the leaders of Iran, Cuba and North Korea without preconditions," Dr. Timothy Power, a lecturer at Oxford University's Centre for Brazilian Studies, recalled this week. "He said he would and Hillary [Clinton] jumped on him and said he was being naive. Well, Lula is just doing what Obama said he would do." (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...Graduated from Punjab University in 1948 and went on to earn economics degrees at Cambridge and Oxford. Served on the faculty at Punjab and the Delhi School of Economics in the 1960s...