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...History.” And yet a sort of historic principle of uncertainty rules what each of us defines as “mistake.” So was ’68 the best or worst from our parent’s generation? Was it Austerlitz or Waterloo? Should we focus on the dream of better opportunities or the delirium courtesy of LSD? Regardless, it remains forever useful to remember how our parents remembered our grandparents. In the pages of History, as Borges himself says, memorable moments need no memorable quotations. But the struggle for memory inevitably adds them...
...that the Conservative Party opted instead for John Major, who attended Rutlish Grammar School in south London.) It's not because Eton lacks famous alumni. Its graduates include 19 British Prime Ministers, the founder of modern chemistry Robert Boyle, the Duke of Wellington (the one who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo), economist John Maynard Keynes, writers Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell, Soviet spy Guy Burgess, actor Hugh Laurie, Princes William and Harry, the fictional James Bond, even a Roman Catholic saint - as well as generations of less illustrious worthies. The problem is that in a more meritocratic age, Eton became...
...patent case, one of several the Justices are hearing this term. The caseload reflects the court's mounting interest in patent wars, which seem to be producing lots of headlines lately. That would include the near shutdown of the popular BlackBerry device, owned by Research in Motion (RIM), of Waterloo, Ont., which had "CrackBerry" fans panicking. RIM coughed up $612.5 million to settle litigation brought by NTP Inc., despite the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected all eight NTP patents that were the focus of the lawsuit. NTP is appealing the rejection, but RIM caved rather than...
After eight years as the second most powerful figure at the United Nations, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fr?chette, 59, is returning to Canada for a post at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ont. She spoke with TIME's Stephen Handelman about the scandals that have weakened the world body and why the next U.N. chief should be a woman...
...small site for so large a role in history--just 3 miles wide and 1 1/2 miles long. But at Waterloo, where at least 140,000 men would clash, the ferocious ambitions of Napoleon were brought to ground at last. Roberts, a British historian, focuses closely and thrillingly on the main day of fighting, a muddy June 18 in 1815, when the savagery of battle would leave tens of thousands of men killed or wounded--and the world forever changed...