Word: brief
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Students from all over the Boston area attended the event. Wellesley College juniors Josephine Law and Betty Ng ate ice cream as they sought a brief respite from the crowded center of the convention floor...
...care when he got a call from a Clinton aide who said abruptly, "Don't come." A scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Aaron had been asked to advise the presidential candidate, then campaigning in Michigan, on ways to finance his expansive health-care goals. Aaron agreed to brief him, but declared in advance that he rejected the easy assumptions of Clinton's staff members that health insurance could be guaranteed to all merely by targeting "waste, fraud and abuse." Aaron stated that "the savings that some people think can be realized are baloney." Then he learned, Aaron says...
...Unlike A Brief History, the new book (a collection of essays, transcribed talks and new writings) contains plenty about Hawking himself. There are the requisite discussions of quantum physics and cosmology, of course. But those millions who bought yet couldn't penetrate A Brief History may be relieved to hear that there are also chapters on Hawking's early life, his marriage to fellow student Jane Wilde and his experiences as an ALS victim...
...book also addresses, at least in passing, a controversy stirred by A Brief History. Many readers interpreted portions of that book as an attempt to disprove the existence of God. Not so, says Hawking. "You don't need to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the universe, but that doesn't prove there is no God -- only that he acts through the laws of physics." Other controversies are ignored. Three years ago, Hawking left his wife after more than two decades and moved in with Elaine Mason, one of his nurses. "I would rather not go into...
History was sealed less with paper and pens than with a brief handshake that was caught in the click of hundreds of cameras, a scene beamed to millions of people in a world nurtured for 45 years on a diet of hate and death in the arid lands of Israelis and Arabs. This, more than the Declaration of Principles, was the affirmation of a new era that watchers could believe. The parchment signed out on the lawn was a framework for interim Palestinian self- government, and it was for the archives, a document meant to bind Israel and the Palestine...