Wall Street Journal editor Tunku Varadarajan looked back upon his days at Oxford with some ambivalence:

"My biggest solecism -- which occurred on my first day as a callow lecturer at Oxford, when I first took breakfast in the senior common room of my college -- was to say 'Hello, Dr. Simopoulos' to a Dr. Simopoulos. The good doctor glowered at me from above a newspaper, which he'd lowered briefly to allow him to make the point. 'At breakfast,' he said, 'we do not speak.'"