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...Magne Bondevik out of office in next week's election? Polls indicate a win for the opposition, a Red-Green alliance headed by Labor leader Jens Stoltenberg, who held the premiership for a short period in 2000-01. In the most recent opinion poll, published in the daily newspaper Aftenposten, Labor and its two support parties stand to win 52.2% (Labor: 34.6%) of the votes corresponding to 94 seats in the 169-seat Parliament. What can Stoltenberg provide that Bondevik can't? Stability, and the country's first majority government in at least two decades, according to Professor Frank Aarebrot...
...would scare off potential suitors. She was reassured by the fact that her mom had found a husband despite similar wisps of down, "but that was before I knew that Dad had been forced to marry her." Not everyone is amused. In an August 2002 article in the Aftenposten daily, anthropologist Marianne Gullestad accused Rehman of reinforcing stereotypes about Muslims, and making Norwegians think it's O.K. to discriminate against immigrants. Rehman rejects the criticism. "I'm not out to stimulate dialogue but to satirize people's attitudes," she says. "That's why I make fun of religion, nationalism...
...fast and this year will be part of the Winter Games for the first time. But count Haakonsen out of Nagano. The iconoclastic world champion has likened the International Olympic Committee to the Mafia. And last week, as he announced his refusal to participate, he told the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, "There is a lot about these Games that is not my cup of tea." He added, "The thought of an Olympic gold medal has never tempted me." His boycott is a blow to the legitimacy of Olympic snowboarding. Says Todd Richards, America's No. 1 boarder: "I'll feel cheated...
...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...
Solzhenitsyn nominated Sakharov for the peace prize in a surprisingly choleric and wide-ranging 3,000-word article for Oslo's daily Aftenposten. In it, he attacked Western liberals for what he termed their readiness to denounce oppression in rightist countries and their reluctance to criticize the Soviet Union. "Such profound hypocrisy is characteristic of American political life today," Solzhenitsyn continued, referring to Watergate. "Without in any way defending Nixon or the Republican Party, I am amazed at the affected, loudmouthed wrath of the Democrats. Wasn't American democracy full of mutual deception during previous election campaigns...