STOP PRESS

[fox]

update: so i'm looking through an e-mail, with a chain of replies, between self and the secretary of the Lx department at oxford -- and i see where she told me, on december 4, that the MPhil (which is what i've been accepted for) is a two-year degree, the one-year version of which (MSt, Master of Studies?) has a lower pass mark and no thesis. (my feeling is, with all apologies to mr. jefferson's university, i have that degree already.)