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...Probably not. But this is the name of the game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos...
...this point we've already been given several pleasantly familiar Brownian treats. Langdon has already flashed us his trademark Mickey Mouse watch ("I wear it to remind me to slow down and take life less seriously"), and we've gotten a taste of his freakish memory, his crippling claustrophobia and his rueful skepticism. We've been reminded of Brown's taste for ritual violence - there's a touch of Thomas Harris about his writing. We've even been introduced to a lonely, violent fanatic with weird skin. His name is Mal'akh instead of Silas, and instead of being...
...adopt the euro during his 10-year tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer. With marked success, his Treasury successor, Alistair Darling, has promoted the patented Brown rescue plan to the IMF, the G-7 and the G-20. Even U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has recalibrated his scheme along Brownian lines...
...money -- all of these factors swirling around in a kind of Brownian motion. Certainly one of the forces behind peace in both the Middle East and South Africa was what one observer called ''a biological compulsion'' in all four men to reach a settlement. Mandela is 75, De Klerk 57, Rabin 71 and Arafat 64. ''They were aware they did not have much time left,'' says William Quandt, who was at the National Security Council during the 1978 Camp David negotiations. ''And if they waited, history would write about them as people who had missed a chance to end their...
...house is now privately owned. But his former flat in Bern, Switzerland, where he lived as a young man for nearly two years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis - the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then 26-year-old described it as the time when "a storm broke loose in my mind." The museum features original furnishings and some turn-of-the-century physics-lab equipment, along with photos of Einstein and copies of his notes...