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...packed full of comedy," Stroman says. "It's a comedy musical more than it is a musical comedy." Much of the Broadway cast returns, although two key roles are taken over by movie stars: Will Ferrell as a neo-Nazi playwright, and Uma Thurman as a Swedish casting-couch cutie. (At 6-ft.-plus, both actors tower over their leading men: Broderick is 5 ft. 8 in., and he's the tall...
...glimmer of the Nobel Prize has once again dawned on Harvard, almost a decade after a Harvard professor last received the honor—Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday...
...receipts efficiently back into the economy by investing in education and infrastructure. How much can other European countries learn from the North? French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, for one, acknowledges Nordic influence on some of his social policies. Germany's Finance Minister, Hans Eichel, even invited along his Swedish counterpart, Per Nuder, during last month's election campaign. But Denmark's former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen warned that simply borrowing Nordic policies without adapting them to national conditions would result in "bad karaoke." Still, the survey suggests Europe's biggest economies need to do something radical: France, Germany...
...oyster opening championship, but the highlight for most visitors is the international shucking contest, when contestants from as far afield as Singapore and Estonia compete for the world title. Scandinavians have held the top spot in recent years (in 2004, Oslo chef Ola Nilsson unseated the previous year's Swedish winner). The trick is to combine speed with precision. Competitors are penalized if their oysters contain grit, or if flesh is improperly detached from the shells or damaged...
...Well you can't keep a good novelist down, and 79 pages into Coetzee's first book since the Swedish Academy lauded the "icy precision" of his prose, Elizabeth is back, as hot and blustery as the wind off the desert. Until this point, Slow Man (Knopf; 265 pages) has been about the unraveling of retired photographer Paul Rayment in Adelaide. After his bicycle is clipped by a car, he loses first his leg, then his dignity and, perhaps, his mind. Dour of disposition and without family, he's drawn to his hot-blooded Croatian nurse, Marijana Jokic, whose troublesome...