Word: denmark
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...Soviet Union. His concept of perestroika was sorely misunderstood by the population, which has since separated into many factions, each with its own agenda. As a Nobel laureate, Gorbachev will be remembered by many of us as a man who was ahead of his time. Henrik V. Blunck Dianalund, Denmark What's Next for Israel? time's story on Ehud Olmert's victory in the Israeli elections [April 10] said it showed that Israeli voters "are apparently ready to sacrifice the ancient dream of a Greater Israel - stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River - for peace with...
...screams the loudest who's right. Peter Andersen 29, adviser in the youth section, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions Why should employers be allowed to fire young people without a reason? More than anybody else, young people need secure attachment to the labor market. Here in Denmark, young people are given a kind of loose attachment to the labor market and do not have the same rights as anybody else. The Danish government is proposing that people under 30 should have reduced unemployment benefits if they don't have [ certain educational qualifications ]. The system of casual laborers and contracts...
...nominate Denmark's Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, for his handling of the cartoon affair. No amount of diplomatic pressure, economic boycotts or burned embassies would persuade him that limiting free press could have some noble outcome. Now, on issues of religious intolerance, we shall measure our leaders by the Rasmussen Resolve Scale. If they don't meet his standards, we will vote them away...
...have difficulty understanding the mentality of Iran's newest rulers. Then again, we don't understand the mentality of the men who flew into the World Trade Center or the mobs in Damascus and Tehran who chant "Death to America"--and Denmark(!)--and embrace the glory and romance of martyrdom...
...Even before agreement is reached with Russia and China, the U.S., Britain and France will seek support from the remaining ten members of the Council - Argentina, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers...