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...pure; it still is very close to Old Norse, and a committee monitors all neologisms. An idiosyncratic literature has developed based on the Viking sagas, which relate the nation's early history. Today Iceland has a 99.9% literacy rate, one of the highest in the world, while maintaining some curious folk traditions: a survey by the University of Iceland reported that nearly 65% of the population believe in elves and other supernatural creatures. Indeed, the Hofdi guesthouse, Reykjavik's official residence for visitors and the likely site of the summit meetings, is widely believed to be haunted...
Hunt responded with crispness and clarity to both Linsky and Neustadt's call for a new era of press management by policymakers. Linsky and Neustadt, in defending the concept of improved press management, offered curious suggestions to policymakers: 1) "frame the issues" for the journalist, 2) use the press merely to communicate with other departments (i.e. inter-office memoranda), and 3) consider the press a strategic instrument to implement policies. The spirit of these suggestions struck chords of discontent with Hunt. In fact, they clashed with several values which Hunt later defended: the autonomy of the press, the adversarial...
...took nearly 20 minutes just to walk to the back of the line, a curious line determined by those scattered, silent sleeping bags. Little outposts of faith...
Cronin, meanwhile, cuts a curious figure as the poet; she neither looks or acts much like a man. The two argue over love, death, beauty, and haggard old age, but the passions and emotions conveyed by the two actors are less than riveting...
People-to-people exchanges of this kind can all too easily arc off into the stratosphere of goodwill. American participants are often at a curious disadvantage. They lean toward the view that both sides are to blame. Their Soviet counterparts agree with half of that proposition, eagerly endorsing any American selfcriticism while promulgating the doctrine of Soviet infallibility...