Word: denmark
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...After the Wedding, Denmark Days of Glory, Algeria The Lives of Others, Germany Pan's Labyrinth, Mexico Water, Canada (but really India...
Last October, Roll attended a guest lecture at the Barker Center delivered by Iván Almeida, then of the Borges Center at Aarhus University in Denmark. Roll had brought his folder of Borges treasures to the lecture, and afterwards, he spread out the collection and invited everyone in the audience to take a look...
...that France doesn't need a full-scale Thatcherite revolution to get it back on track. The conditions in the country are still far better than they were in Britain in the 1970s. Decline is not inevitable, whatever the best sellers say; several of France's European partners, from Denmark to Spain, have put in place the conditions for reform with a mixture of judicious spending cuts, farsighted policy fixes and a willingness to embrace the opportunities presented by a changing world. By contrast, the French debate remains stuck in a time warp. Even that perennial, the 35-hour week...
Cohousing, which debuted in Denmark in the 1970s, is a semi-communal concept in which separate living units--usually attached condo-style--are clustered around a "common house," which, at the very least, has a kitchen, a dining room and a third area for gatherings and activities. The idea is to bring back a time when neighbors were an integral part of one another's lives, sharing meals and recreation--and providing companionship and a helping hand. That concept has been co-opted recently by older people looking for a way to combine their autonomy with access to a supportive...
...insufferable Gallic superiority, but it was absolutely right; overtly religious symbols are divisive. Schools and colleges should be places of social integration. Protests against the injunction soon died down and many Muslim French girls were happily released from a heritage that has no place in the modern world. Belgium, Denmark and Singapore have taken similar steps. Britain has been both more relaxed about cultural differences and over-anxious about challenging unacceptable practices. Few Britons have realized that the hijab - now more widespread than ever - is, for Islamicist puritans, the first step on a path leading to the burqa, where even...