Word: brian
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...trouble is, neither Witten nor anyone else knows how many other pieces must fall into place before scientists succeed in solving this greatest of all puzzles. One major reason, observes Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, is that string theory developed backward. "In most theories, physicists first see an overarching idea and then put equations to it." In string theory, says Greene, "we're still trying to figure out the central nugget of truth...
...some of the families of the dead children of Columbine, the very idea of "closure" is an insult and a hoax. There can never be closure for them. "To say that we want to move on and put this behind us, that's not true," says Brian Rohrbough, whose son Daniel was among the first to die. There is still too much pain and too many questions, and even if the answers come, their children will never come back, and nothing will be the same again...
Message: I'm winging it. This may satisfy Bush, but other people have grown concerned. After he grinned through his recent foreign-policy speech, callers to C-Span spent more time weighing in on "the alleged smirk," as Brian Lamb put it, than on his hard line on China. Last week a New Hampshire voter asked Bush, gingerly, if he were "intellectually curious." It's always better, Bush replied, to "be underestimated...
...ones, but when you leave the theater on such a high, it's hard to complain. Bernadette Peters frees Irving Berlin's Annie Oakley from the iron grip of Ethel Merman in Graciela Daniele's revisionist production. Michael Blakemore plays it straighter with Kate but gives stars Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie a terrific showcase...
...ARTHUR MILLER At 84, he's hot again. First came an acclaimed new production of Death of a Salesman, with Brian Dennehy putting his bearlike grip on Willy Loman, then a powerful new opera based on A View from the Bridge and an impressive Broadway revival of The Price, Miller's underrated 1968 drama about two brothers coming to terms after their father's death...