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Oxford Union president misses out on top job after asking about strip clubs
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UFC president to address Oxford debate club
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The Oxford English Dictionary Definitions of 'Print' and 'Digital'
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Trial rescheduled for FBI agent
The trial for an FBI agent charged with lying about ownership of an Oxford building has been rescheduled for Nov. 8 in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen.

Oxford Dictionary no longer in print
The next edition of Britain's venerable Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed due to the Internet's impact on declining book sales, its publisher says."The print dictionary market is just disappearing, it is falling away by tens of per cent a year," Nigel Portwood, the chief executive of Oxford University Press said. Asked if he thought the third edition would be printed, he said, "I don't think so."Portwood said the dictionary's third edition will probably appear only in electronic form. It has been available online for more than 10 years to subscribers who pay an annual fee of about $372 Rs 27,000.Simon Winchester, author of The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, said the switch towards online formats was prescient."Until six months ago I was clinging to the idea that printed books would likely last for ever. Since the arrival of the iPad I am now wholly convinced otherwise," Winchester said."The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed. Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities."

Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
London -- It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing.

Oxford dictionary print run doubt
Publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary reveal the third edition of its reference guide may never appear in print.

Ole Miss Convocation is 1st step to commencement
OXFORD — Roughly one-fourth of freshmen who entered the University of Mississippi in 1994 graduated within four years.

Threat to printed Oxford dictionary
London, Aug. 29 AP: In print for over a century, the Oxford English Dictionary 'the authoritative guide to the English language ' may only be available online in future.

Internet wiping out printed Oxford Dictionary
It's been in print for over a century, but in future the Oxford English Dictionary the authoritative guide to the English language may only be available to peruse online.