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...shot-and-a-beer talk of the guys who wear hard hats. Kelly knows how the palaver goes in the kind of bar that doesn't have ferns, the boozy, unchanging gab about sports, women and the System that defines the deep, edgy pessimism of blue- collar men. "Einstein" is what they call Billy, out of class respect and class resentment. But as shots are heard at the end, it is unclear whether he will make it back to law school...
DIED. ROBERT DICKE, 80, early proponent of the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe who mounted a persuasive but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to Einstein's general theory of relativity; in Princeton, New Jersey...
Quoting Theodore Herzl, Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre, Dershowitz said that for too long, Jewish identity has been based in fighting institutionalized oppression. "Our enemies make us one," he said...
...pool can be seen as a sort of species-wide natural resource, it's only sensible for the rarest of those genes to be husbanded most carefully, preserved so that every generation may enjoy their benefits. Even the most ardent egalitarians would find it hard to object to an Einstein appearing every 50 years or a Chopin every century. It would be better still if we could be guaranteed not just an Einstein but the Einstein. If a scientific method were developed so that the man who explained general relativity in the first half of the century could be brought...
...single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...