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...relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to spark fresh interest in the Nobel-prizewinning physicist, who was named TIME's Person of the Century in December 1999. "Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a lateral thinker, pacifist, cosmopolite and visionary," says Gerd Weiberg, head of Germany's Einstein Year celebrations. Here are some highlights of Einstein-related happenings around Europe...
Sadly, there is no Bruce Lee in me to muster—I’m a pacifist. The incident reminded me of the Jackie Mason joke about how every Jew almost killed someone: “If he would’ve said one more woid!” Of course in my case, he could’ve recited The Iliad and I’d still likely have fled from a man who runs into people competitively...
Walters says that the weekly walk is ultimately more contemplative than political for him. He does not consider himself a pacifist in general, but says that these vigils allow him a moment of contemplation about the suffering occurring overseas...
...help free the slaves. The "old man" encouraged young men of his congregation into the Civil War and, in service to the abolitionist cause, abetted John Brown and quite possibly committed murder. His son, the narrator's father, also fought in the war, and subsequently became an ardent pacifist...
...related to him by blood or marriage--his younger brother Cameron and his former brother-in-law David Thorne. Cam was the first Kerry to make an impression on many of Boston's politicos; they remember him as a sophomore at Harvard in 1970, making the rounds of pacifist political circles in an effort to win their backing for the abortive effort of his war-hero-turned-war-protester brother to put together a campaign for Congress that year. (The peace activists went instead for Father Robert Drinan.) Cam, a Boston lawyer, has been a presence in every Kerry campaign...