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...Michael Frayn's drama imagines what might have happened at the meeting in occupied Denmark between Heisenberg, chief of Hitler's atom-bomb program, and Bohr, his Jewish mentor. Did Heisenberg, postulator of the uncertainty principle, attempt to extract information from Bohr? Or did he use the meeting to confess his anguish over helping Hitler? The latter is what the play suggests. But last week Americans got a different version of the story, when unsent letters Bohr wrote Heisenberg were released. In them Bohr (who later fled to the U.S. and worked on the Manhattan Project) evinces dismay at Heisenberg...
...simple: cameras follow two strangers on a “typical” blind date replete with raging libidos in settings conducive to coitus. Post-date, producers add supposedly humorous commentary in white dialogue boxes that appear sporadically throughout the broadcast. After it’s all over, dates confess their feelings of love or repulsion to host Roger Lodge (don’t worry, no one else knows who he is either). On a recent episode, confident coquette Pamela met Tony, an electronics salesman with a knack for skirt-chasing. The two began the date with a long stroll...
...final point is perhaps the most personal. As a graduate of the College and a current member of the teaching faculty, my Harvard roots are deep. However, as the only child of public school teachers and the grandson of factory workers, I must confess that I’ve always felt a bit out of place at Harvard, considering that the privileges and opportunities I have recently come to enjoy are unknown to the members of my family. Thus, when I see a growing, increasingly permanent low-wage labor force at Harvard, it is difficult to fully respect the institution...
...President insists Kennedy's idea would be a tax increase. Now, I have to confess I'm not so good at math, but how is repealing a tax cut before it goes into effect a tax hike? Bush argues that people are planning on having that extra money, so taking it away would effectively be a hike. Anyone else smell fuzzy math...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...