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...force for change. And as Turkey advances in its efforts toward fiscal reform, it must do the same on the human-rights and civil-liberties front if its E.U. application is to proceed. Jean-Christophe Filori, the E.U.'s enlargement spokesman, said the law is "incompatible with the Copenhagen criteria" to which Turkey must conform. Even Dogan agrees that the law is flawed. "I too take issue with the parts that limit freedom of expression or would restrict use of the Internet," he says. "Of course I am on the side of freedom." But he is not going to campaign...
...opposed by key Arab states like Saudi Arabia. Washington is increasingly looking for an exiled Sunni from Saddam's professional army to rally the country against him. An emerging candidate is Nazar Khazraji, a former Iraqi chief of staff who defected in 1996 and is living in Copenhagen. Khazraji can rally the professional military against Saddam, experts say, and would reassure the Saudis and others that Iraq won't fragment into Shi'ite and Kurdish enclaves. But Khazraji's close ties to the seat of power in Iraq create problems for him. A court in Copenhagen is considering bringing...
...mysteries of quantum physics are rarely understood, much less contemplated, by nonscientists. But uncovering the exact nature of a 1941 meeting between physicists NIELS BOHR, top, and WERNER HEISENBERG is a challenge that has enthralled many theatergoers, thanks to the Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen. 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...
Adirazak Mohamud fled to Denmark a year-and-a-half ago from his native Somalia. He dreams of finding work as a bus driver and bringing his wife and baby daughter to live with him in Copenhagen. But new Danish laws may dash those dreams. The government has proposed a series of legal changes that will make it harder for refugees like him to get permanent residence in Denmark and will slash welfare payments to newcomers. "The new law is bad for us," Mohamud says. "If there is no money and no job, I'll have no choice...
...measures are supported by 60% of Danish voters, according to opinion polls. But there is also significant opposition - recently some 2,000 people demonstrated in Copenhagen to express outrage at the new laws. "The basic idea is they want to keep ethnic minorities out of Denmark," says Pakistan-born Bashy Quraishy, president of the European Network Against Racism, who has lived in Denmark for 32 years. "They are saying, 'We want Denmark to be white and Christian.' But they have to understand that Denmark has changed. It's a multicultural society now." Seven out of 10 foreigners are Muslims, including...