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Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss mountain sprite Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000?comprising the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel?a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital?into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker's latest runabout...
Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss maiden Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000, an establishment that comprises the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel - a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital - into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker...
...radio (A Prairie Home Companion) and in books (Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegon Days) and Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student at Keillor's Minnesota high school, who met him again when she returned in August for a 25th class reunion. The marriage, scheduled for Dec. 29 in Copenhagen, will be the second for both. Keillor had dedicated Lake Wobegon Days to Margaret Moos, his radio producer, with whom he shared a house in St. Paul; she has taken a leave from the show...
...final hours last week, 13 of the document's 372 paragraphs remained unresolved, and it appeared that the conference was destined to become a replay of many U.N. meetings, including the Decade's contentious kickoff meeting in Mexico City in 1975 and its politically charged midpoint conclave in Copenhagen in 1980. But one by one, divisive issues were ironed out. One of the most sensitive of these was defused when the host Kenyan delegation succeeded in removing language equating Zionism with racism. "I said I was coming home with a document that did not have Zionism in it," said President...
...changing only the first of the disputed paragraphs. But that may not have been the primary objective anyway. The trio of negative votes, shrugged one member of the U.S. delegation, "was for the people back home." The same issues kept the U.S. from signing the final document at the Copenhagen meeting. But in Nairobi, the U.S. seemed determined, if possible, to lend its imprimatur to the conference's concluding report. Said Delegate Reagan before the final vote: "My No. 1 concern is to have a document adopted by consensus that will give a legacy for ten or 15 years...