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...There is so much love expressed in excessively packaged goodies - literally - that this year the deputy environment minister is promoting "Eco Choco," encouraging shoppers forego extra ribbon or glittery tissue. Some other consumerist stats: one survey showed that nearly 80% of women in their 20s and 30s will be purchasing chocolate on Valentine's. Women spend about $20 for their truffle-worthy honmei, and an obligatory $6 each for their sweet-toothed coworkers, of which the average Japanese female knows six. That roughly comes out to $56 per woman, not to mention the accompanying gifts ($66 on average...
...Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees and The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish journalist and author who was for decades the sole third-world correspondent for a Polish news agency. As it happened, I read too long from the former and had to forego the latter, which I regret. The passage I'd selected was the first thing I thought of after reading that Kapuscinski, 74, had died of cancer in Warsaw...
...should be permitted to bring in a limited amount of personal alcohol. The University should be authorized to supply beer without third-party vendors. The tailgate should be allowed to continue until after the game. These are reasonable compromises. In return, the student body should renew its pledge to forego rioting and other acts of extreme stupidity. This year, Harvard students kept their end of the deal; now it’s the BPD’s turn. The BPD needs to remember that they bring order to promote, not infringe upon, individual liberty...
...scratch that. What’s the easiest legal way to get people to do what you say? The consensus around Harvard Yard is to offer them iPods. Take this year’s Freshman A Capella Jam. Crimson Key set up a white screen, and freshmen willing to forego shame and shake their respective groove thangs competed for one of those shiny pieces of electric goodness in a dance-off. Samir J. Paul ’10, a participant in the booty-shaking bonanza, explains why he was willing to put his money maker on the line...
...inched into the family business under his grandfather's watch. "I saw him here, or maybe on the boat," he said. "I would ask questions, and he always responded." Not yet 20, it was clear that he had a deep drive for business. Between his university exams, Elkann would forego vacations to embark on internships within the company's holdings - at a Birmingham headlight plant, a Lille Fiat dealership, a Krakow assembly line. "It was a gradual process of being tested and wanting to be tested," Elkann recalled. "[Agnelli] saw that I was committed to the work. He believed...