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...relationship to the people of Britain, it should, many hope, mark a profound personal turning point in the life of a man who at 33 has often conducted himself with an embarrassing lack of gravitas. Although he received good grades as a student at Eton and then at Oxford University, he was dubbed "Champagne Charlie" by the press for his partying ways. In 1989, at 25, Spencer became engaged to Victoria Lockwood, a fashion model whom he had known for just 10 days. Serving as best man at his wedding was Spencer's Oxford chum Darius Guppy, who was later...
...Timothy Garton Ash, a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, reconstructing one's past involves a "continuous remixing of memory and forgetting." For much of 1980, while working on a doctorate in history, Garton Ash lived in East Berlin. Inevitably, he became an object of interest to East Germany's omnipresent secret police, known by the acronym Stasi. In The File (Random House; 262 pages; $23), Garton Ash, now 42, tries to reconstruct that year behind Berlin's Wall by comparing his private notes from the period with what he found in Stasi's newly opened records. Going further...
...Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From the Course Catalog Award: to "Philosophy 161r: Topics in Metaphysics," in which Derek Parfit, of Oxford's All Souls College, tells his flock "why the universe exists." Coming next year: "Philosophy 666: The Apocalypse: Where, When and what You Need to Face It." Runner Up: Goran Ekstrom's "ESPP 90B: Preparing for Natural Disasters." Maybe they should co-teach...
...passion for challenging conventional wisdom, he is leveraging his billions to move controversial ideas and speculate in policy. In the process, he has made himself the most influential, intriguing and to some the most infuriating philanthropist of our era. Says he: "When I was offered an honorary degree at Oxford, they asked me how I wanted to be described, and I said I would like to be called a financial, philanthropic and philosophical speculator...
WELD: A.B. summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1966; J.D. cum laude, 1970; diploma with distinction, Oxford University, 1967. Partner, firm Hill & Barlow, 1971-81; associate minority counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry, 1973-74; U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 1981-86; Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Justice Department, 1986-88; Governor of Massachusetts...