i was glued to my seat when he broke the news on the air at nbc and thenbr i cheated on my msnb family because i immediately wanted to jump over to npr to seer what nina totenberg s reporting would be on the announcement knowing her experience as a supreme court reporter and with her deep connections to so manyt of the justices and those around them on the court she would have detailhe and insight that nobod else had as to where this decision came from and what it will mean for the court. and indeed, all day long, her reporting for np reflex has been priceless. just a piece of it today. quote, if heie hadn t been a justice, hollywood might have made him up. deeplyma intellectual, fluent i not just law but also philosophy, art and culture. he s also absent minded. geeky. self deprecatingly funny. physically fit. but so preoccupied that he three timesed suffered serious injuri whenti knocked from his bicycle. in f 1993, mr. breyer was a