memeorandum: John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86 (Erica Goode/New York Times)

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Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say — File photo: Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (right) and his wife Alicia sit on a coach inside their inside their home in 2009. Nash, a senior research mathematician at Princeton University …

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Erica Goode / New York Times:

John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86 — John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental illness …

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‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in car crash — 1994: John Nash talks about the future of mankind 01:08 — Story highlights — (CNN)John Forbes Nash Jr., the Princeton University mathematician whose life inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind,” and his wife died …

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Driving Uber Mad — WASHINGTON — ON a reporting expedition to Los Angeles recently, I realized I could stop renting cars. — I would never again have to brave the L.A. freeway behind the wheel. I would never have to obsess, like the characters in the “Saturday Night Live” skit …

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Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:

Can Feingold come back from defeat? — By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel — For almost two decades, Russ Feingold had a winning image in Wisconsin politics — the liberal maverick. He galvanized Democrats, won independents and made small but critical inroads among Republicans.

Chris McGreal / Guardian:

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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
US court to hear suit accusing Adelson of graft in China

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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:

The Tolerant Jeweler Who Harbored an Impure Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage — I — n the American Conservative yesterday, Rod Dreher related the following story: … One could be forgiven for wondering how we are all supposed to keep up. Last month, as Indiana's rather tame religious-freedom legislation …

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Justin S. Vaughn / New York Times:

The Making of a Great Ex-President — Though deeply engaged in his presidency — battling for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and against ISIS — Barack Obama is also casting an eye beyond Jan. 20, 2017, when his post-presidency begins. We've learned that his presidential library will be in Chicago …

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Susan Edelman / New York Post:

No pay, no play! Poor kids banned from school carnival — PS 120 in Queens held its fun-day carnival for students whose families could shell out $10 - but banished those of modest means to the auditorium. — No party for the poor. — PS 120 in Flushing held a carnival for its students on Thursday …

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WATCH: Virginia Cop Uses Pepper-Spray, Taser on Unresisting Black Man Having Stroke — He says he did nothing wrong. — Saying he did nothing wrong, a Virginia police officer resigned from the Fredricksburg Police Department after body-cam video showed him using his Taser, and then pepper-spray …

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New York's PIX11:

Lindenhurst family receives racially charged letter in mailbox, told to leave town … LINDENHURST, N.Y. (PIX11)- Suffolk County police are investigating a possible hate crime targeting an African-American family in Lindenhurst. — Ronica Copes, a resident of the suburban neighborhood …

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