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...hero in Caesar and a great poet in William Shakespeare. Pi too has its heroes, Archimedes and Lindemann, and a poet in Dante, who in his Divine Commedy wrote eloquently about the geometer's inability to square the circle--"Qual e 'l geometra che tutto s'affige / per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritrova, / pensando, quel principio ond' elli indige..." But I don't speak Italian, and it seems that for the moment the guy who writes in English has the upper hand...
...early Valentine's Day gift, Puffy gave J. Lo...
...Puffy" and "J-Lo," SEAN COMBS and JENNIFER LOPEZ to the nickname impaired, are over. Then again, Puffy and J-Lo are not over. It is an amorous seesaw that holds the nation rapt in tepid curiosity. The New York Daily News reported last week that Lopez quietly split from Combs several months ago and has been seeing a dancer named Chris--who lacks not only a nickname but a surname--whom she met while making her Love Don't Cost a Thing video. The callipygian queen instantly denied the story, her spokesperson intoning that Lopez and Combs "are absolutely...
...Lo, an employee of the Coca-Cola Co. for the past 14 years, sometimes feels a bit like a man adrift on a shrinking piece of pack ice. As corporate-affairs director for Coke's Chinese operations, he has been busy lately helping the company move its local headquarters from Hong Kong to the mainland powerhouse of Shanghai. Now that the move is complete, he and six other staff members are all that are left of a former complement of 140 people. In Shanghai, by contrast, Coke's staff will have jumped to a 1 million-sq.-ft., seven-story...
...broth. Nascimento seems to view the world as his supermarket, throwing in his musical cart Portuguese fado, South African juju music and, of course, bossa nova rhythms from his native country. His first song popped and burbled with township jive, and the emotional high point was reached when Lo Borges (a peer of Nascimento's who hails from his home region of Minas Gerais) joined him on stage for a rendition of Nascimento's song "Para Lennon e McCartney," yet another tribute to the guiding spirit of the Beatles. One can only guess what impact the release of the Beatles...