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Many Britons are familiar with that routine, which Johnson has honed in parliament as MP for the affluent constituency of Henley in southeastern England and as the occasional presenter of a TV game show. Readers not yet acquainted with his signature style will get a flavor of it from this verbatim response to TIME's question about whether he considers himself a conviction politician. (For full impact, the passage must be declaimed in the poshest of English accents.) "I certainly have a range of convictions. Not for anything serious. God. I don't have convictions actually...
Ethiopia-born and Tanzania-schooled Yoseph S. Ayele ’11 woke up to his first New England snowfall yesterday morning. “I looked out my window and saw cars covered in snow and was like ‘Wow! This happens in real life!’” Ayele said. “It’s just like a movie.” As the snow fell softly on the streets of Cambridge, covering the Yard in a layer of white, freshmen and upperclassmen alike bundled up in scarves, gloves, and puffy jackets...
...Thursday morning in March, 2002, John Darwin paddled his red kayak into the unforgiving North Sea near the industrial port of Hartlepool in northeastern England. He never returned home. In short order, an oar from Darwin's kayak washed up on a local beach. A search team of lifeboats, a Royal Navy ship and a Royal Air Force helicopter mobilized for a frantic, 16-hour search. His yellow life vest was found, but no trace of Darwin was discovered. When the splintered remains of his tiny vessel drifted ashore six weeks later, he was presumed drowned...
When it is bathed in crisp sunlight, the village of Gnosall in England's West Midlands seems almost plucked from a Jane Austen novel. A neat cluster of tidy shops and well-kept brick homes, the community of 5,000 boasts an 11th century Anglican church and a grass-banked canal. Along the winding High Street, locals walk their dogs and motorists yield and wave. And quaint charm isn't the whole story. "It's a very modern, forward-thinking place," says ward council member James Kelly...
...chance of a community Gnosall's size enduring six suicides in a single year to be less than 0.001%. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this torrent of disaster is that nobody can pinpoint its root cause. "There are no demographic differences between Gnosall and the rest of England" that would explain the anomaly, Pikhart notes. "If anything, it is above average in terms of employment and other social indicators...