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* Bernd Runge, 43, of Berlin, has a very nice life. Named "Media Man of 2003," and reportedly a member of the "jet-set," Mr. Runge is the head of media conglomerate Conde Nast's German operations. The publisher of "lifestyle" magazines Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Vogue, Conde Nast has a famously relaxed attitude toward senior staff's business expenses--as we said, it's a very nice life. But Bernd has one small problem: He was a willing and enthusiastic informer for the Stasi, the East German secret police, between 1981 and 1989. In what might have been useful training for Conde Nast's viperish office politics, Mr. Runge, ...