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Boris, a scholarship boy and avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, is academically gifted. But his reports there worried that he might squander his huge potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable U.K. political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary...
...Verhaeghen, 42, never knew. "I was doing a postdoc at Potsdam in 1995," he recalls, moments before leaving his Atlanta home for a psychology conference in California. "I took the train to Berlin and emerged at Mitte, the center of old East Berlin. I found myself alone on this huge square, except for a strange glow coming from a glass plate in the pavement. There was a small white underground chamber lined with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will end up burning people.' It was the monument...
...week or so ago I bought some pomegranates in my local fruit market in New Delhi. They were huge and glowed bright red, and the small juicy crystals of flesh inside tasted as good as they looked. But the most remarkable thing about the fruit was the box they came in. It was stamped in big, bold letters with the words "Kandahari Pomegranates. Export Quality. Products of Afghanistan...
...some things need to be limited, like the shopping thing,” Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.org Civic Action, the political group that created the petition, said in an e-mailed statement that “Facebook’s policy change was a huge step in the right direction, and we hope it sets an important precedent in favor of Internet users’ rights that the entire industry follows.” Green said that MoveOn.org has not decided whether it will demand a complete opt-out, whereby Facebook users will be able to disable...
...campus at prime spots including Memorial Church and the Freshman Dean’s Office. The two-week drive will end on Dec. 14, when the boxes will be collected and sorted, and eventually distributed to various non-profit organizations around Boston. “This drive plays a huge role across different communities,” said Zandra I. Kambysellis, the department administrator of Phillips Brooks House who is leading the drive. Gifts, which will end up in the hands of infants, children, and teenagers can include everything from books and art supplies to sports equipment and stuffed animals...