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Boris, who was a scholarship student and an avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, was always academically gifted. But his reports there expressed worries that he might squander his 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 British political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time...
...stayed in touch throughout World War II, told vivid stories of love, friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject. He was 61 and died of complications from stomach ulcers...
...summers and receive free enrollment in Harvard Summer School courses in their third. In addition, students receive a weekly $200 stipend and a free laptop computer. Those who complete the program—as did all 30 members of the first CSA class—receive a $3,000 scholarship...
...neither candidate is viewed as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative on all fronts. Romney accuses Huckabee of being soft on immigration because as Arkansas governor he supported extending college scholarship to the children of illegal immigrants, and others have said his record shows he is open to raising taxes. Romney, though, has his own problems: many conservatives have labeled him a flip-flopper because he was once pro-choice, though he now says he was wrong on the issue and wouldn't uphold Roe v. Wade...
...Historical fact-finding missions involving both Chinese and Japanese specialists may eventually lead to reconciliation. Independent Chinese and Japanese study commissions were set up to mark the massacre's 70th anniversary. Meanwhile, a Harvard-sponsored joint study on the Sino-Japanese War has contributed Chinese, Japanese and English scholarship that promises to narrow the gaps between Nanjing accounts. "A joint project can socialize each side to accept that the other side is working in good faith," says Fogel. "It can also reflect on how one's own side may be basing conclusions on something other than hard data." Iris Chang...