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...highlight of the conference, however, was a rare joint appearance by Watson and Crick. Both looked appropriately oracular: Watson with his aureole of thinning hair, Crick with a rim of silver. Still, there were flashes of the brash biochemists who had once electrified the scientific world. Watson displayed the pointed wit that he employed so deftly in his gossipy, irreverent 1968 history, The Double Helix (it began with the line "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood...
Osborne Computer, though, had some unique problems. Insiders explain that its founder, while savvy and brash, was undisciplined. Says one: "Adam was always supremely confident. For him to desire something was quite enough, and the fact that it didn't exist didn't matter." Critics say his impulsive demands were enough to propel the company for the first year, but he lacked the management experience to run a larger company in a highly competitive field...
...Gaddafi overthrew the pro-Western government of President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo in nearby Upper Volta. Street fighting in the capital city of Ouagadougou left five dead and 15 wounded. Ouédraogo was replaced by a "National Council of Revolution" headed by Thomas Sankara, 35, a brash, charismatic army captain. In the past, Libya has also made trouble by attempting to undermine pro-Western governments in Niger, Senegal and Tunisia...
Tate said he remembered Faltings as "very bright, brash and full of energy and so on", but he added that he was surprised to discover that Faltings had been the one to solve the Mordell conjecture, a problem he himself had worked on for several years...
Oxford has welcomed the steady stream of bright and often brash young scholars for eight decades, but as many of them flooded back through the medieval quadrangles last week, the spectacle was enough to give the ancient university pause. "In small groups, they were exciting," said one don, looking over the scene. "This is almost frightening...