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...little more than inferences from a cryptic 1903 letter from Einstein to Mileva ("I am very sorry about what has happened to Lieserl. Scarlet fever often leaves some lasting trace behind") and vague comments about idiocy in the family by an elderly Maric descendant in the Serbian town of Kac--remain conjectural at best...
...police rounded up more than 100 women from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and points east. Allegedly lured as dancers by a self-described theatrical agent, they were then forced "to be nice to customers or else." The agent is now awaiting trial. Even war does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned $2 a week...
...There are two kinds of geniuses," the eminent mathematician Mark Kac once remarked. "An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better." The other kind Kac called magicians. "Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark . . . Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber...
True college athletes would go to schools that had collegiate football and basketball programs rather than play for college-owned minor-league teams in same way that Tony Hrkac (pronounced hr-kac) played hockey for the University of North Dakota rather than for an NHL farm team. The same way that Dave Winfield played for the University of Minnesota instead of the Padres' farm team...
Soviet mathematicians who have emigrated to the United States include David Kazhdan, professor of Mathematics at Harvard; Kac, of MIT; Boris Moischezon and Gregory Chudnovsky of Columbia University; Boris Weisfeiler and L.N. Vaserstein of Pennsylvania State University; Mikhael Gromov of the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and IIya Piaketakii-Shapiro of Yale University...