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...first extensive work of English literature (and history) that I read and reread. It occupied much of my thought during my university years as an undergraduate." Einstein recalls how he fell in love with mathematics: As a boy of 12, he came upon a copy of Euclid's Elements in his uncle's library. It was the theorems, not the proofs (which he skipped), that enthralled...
BORN: April 3, 1949, Covington EDUCATION: Holmes High School, graduated 1967 FAMILY: Wife, Connie Sue; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Sporting-goods-store owner; bowling-lane manager POLITICAL CAREER: City commissioner, 1984-85; vice mayor of Covington, 1986-87, mayor, 1988- ADDRESS: 1720 Euclid Avenue, Covington...
...additional benefit of ending welfare as we know it will be the slowdown of illegal immigration. The jobs that attract poor illegals will in the future be filled by people who are at present welfare recipients. MICHAEL LINSAY South Euclid, Ohio...
...decor is intense. Pseudo-stained glass and paintings cover the walls and ceiling. There are even bathrooms (really!), papered with pages of Euclid (gentlemen) or minarets, masks and medieval maidens (ladies). Bookshelves in a corner are filled with an array of titles, including A Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with...
Elkies spent eight years of his youth in Israel, and hecame to New York City having read a Hebrew translation of Euclid but without any significant knowledge of English. He was accepted into the prestigious Stuyvesant High School on the strength of his almost-perfect score on the mathematical portion of their admissions test, although he flunked the English section. "I had already been doing advanced work for my age in both music and math when I got [to New York]," Elkies recalls...