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...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? The latter is what the play suggests. But last week Americans...
...tune in two years. Surprisingly, her latest song is about how love conquers all CONAN O'BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized by fire and police unions for attending premiere of Collateral Damage. And then he actually had to sit through the film JAMES BROWN Employee sues...
ZIMBABWE Under Observation Government officials accredited 26 E.U. observers for next month's presidential election - but excluded the Swedish head of the team and representatives from Britain, Denmark, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands. The acceptance of observers was a key condition laid down by the E.U. if Zimbabwe is to avoid sanctions on its leaders. Authorities also denied that the tourist visa granted to E.U. delegation head Pierre Schori had been withdrawn but warned him not to make more political statements...
...mph—is the second-fastest-moving object in sports behind the jai-alai ball. “Bad,” as O’Connor and her teammates call it, is a game of nuance, strategy and superhuman agility, played most competitively in Southeast Asia and Denmark. Badminton was first observed by British army personnel in occupied India circa 1850, where—called “Poona”—it had existed for centuries. Entranced by the game, the soldiers brought it home. As lore has it, one afternoon the Duke of Beaufort...
...Christmas comes early at Bakken in Denmark when 120 Santas gather for the annual Father Christmas Congress...