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...physicist shine in the early 20th century in the face of his “very rebellious” nature. “He learned to marvel at what you and I would find ordinary,” Isaacson said. “This makes him the patron saint of all distracted school kids everywhere.” Isaacson cited Einstein’s creativity as the driving force behind finding success during some of his life’s most important and difficult events, including his discovery of the theory of relativity—explaining in part that...
...Brian Burke had the opposite effect. He's been embarrassed by a gas-guzzling car and a solar-free home, and no doubt the government and a more searching media will turn up more trouble: perhaps he runs the air-conditioning hard in steamy Brisbane. Rudd is not a saint, he has said, nor even a future one like Mother Teresa. Over the coming months, his unabridged story of Australia's future will be absorbed and scrutinized. So far, Rudd is treating the rave reviews he's got for Doing a Kevin with cold water and caution. The nation...
...Many people don't know you have always had roots with jazz music, including playing a jam session with the great Miles Davis. How big of an influence is music in your life? -Kyle Lauterer, Saint Charles, IL It had an extraordinary influence. I led disparate lives as a teenager. I would spend weekends down in the [Greenwich] Village or at the Five Spot with Charlie Mingus. I would watch Bill Evans and after college - particularly after I became more well known - I used to drive him home from his gigs, finding out later that he had a [depression] problem...
Similar tension is evident far beyond Saint-Gilles. In the wake of the 2005 riots in suburban projects and pitched battles between police and immigrant youth last month in Paris' Gare du Nord train station, more French are gravitating toward hard-line positions. Sarkozy, the former Interior Minister, is a natural law-and-order candidate who spent his time in office noisily battling crime and deporting illegal aliens. But even some of his allies have questioned his campaign pledge to create a "Ministry for Immigration and National Identity"--a linkage many decry as a Le Penesque invocation of a creeping...
...recent national poll gave Sarkozy 31.5% backing, against 24% for his Socialist rival Sgolne Royal (who, sinking in the polls, took her own stab at identity politics, suggesting in March that all French citizens should learn La Marseillaise). To some in Saint-Gilles, Sarkozy's allure is in his electability. "I'm voting for Sarkozy not only because I think he truly believes these policies are necessary," confides a retired Saint-Gilles farmer and past Le Pen voter who identifies himself only as Andr, "but also because Sarkozy has a far better chance of winning and applying them...