Mr. Bonilla's second tenure with the Mets was far briefer, but no better, than his first.

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It's easier to call a weather briefer or go to one of a dozen Web sites.

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The briefer is to be none other than Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

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The weather briefer tells us of thunderstorms in Binghamton and farther south, but we are vectored to Albany, so we're okay.

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Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.

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After a brief interview with the car owner and an even briefer interview with some people at Uber I was given a small packet of information regarding ubers operating procedures, how the payment system works etc, given an iphone and sent on my way.

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" "I always thought, " Mr. Mudd continues, "that any conversation about the intelligence the briefer provided every morning should clearly articulate the differences between the three, along with the even more clearly defined separation from the fourth, non-intelligence, pillar: discuss the policy question, what we should do about the problem that's just been defined.

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