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...Presumably, Rifkin awoke early one morning and saw that this second law of thermodynamics could be applied to absolutely everything, and proceeded--with the assistance of disciple Ted Howard--to enshrine his thoughts in a reasonably priced hardcover. Descartes watched a fly crawl across his ceiling, and invented mathematics; Newton got bruised by a wayward apple and theorized gravity; only history will tell us how it all came to Rifkin...
...prove his point. Still, his argument flows from the sublime to the ridiculous in an annoying cycle. His style is entropic; how else can you describe someone who in one breath quotes Einstein and in the next produces a remarkably declarative and pithy sentence like "Wrong!" to refute Newton...
...attacks seem likely to bring reluctant liberals behind Frank. For months his chances have appeared grim, mostly because wealthy, left-leaning constituencies in Newton and Brookline have viewed him as a carpetbagger...
...other--and only native--liberal in the race, to drop out a few weeks ago. But many Mofenson supporters were less than enthusiastic about backing the chubby Back Bay legislator. "The letter may be just what we need to remind people of the alternatives," one Frank backer in Newton said yesterday...
Although he didn't baffle the pros as he did the Eastern League, Alevizos had a fine season. In 16 games, the Newton resident compiled a 4-1 record and 2.85 earned run average, with most of his appearances in short relief...