Word: denmark
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Christian VII, King of Denmark in the latter half of the 18th century, was madder than a host of Hamlets. His minders hired an idealistic young physician to take care of him, but when the doctor used his access to the weak-minded King to take control of the nation--and to romance the hot-blooded young Queen--things went very rotten indeed. Enquist, a celebrated Swedish novelist, turns this actual historical incident into an enthralling fable of the temptations of power--and a surprisingly poignant love story...
...begin the country's rehabilitation. Pakistan severed its last diplomatic ties with the Taliban , while the U.S. intensified the hunt for Osama bin Laden, placing thousands of troops on standby. The U.S. also deployed new high-tech sensors in surveillance planes and in scouting vehicles on the ground. DENMARK Shift to the Right Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen conceded defeat to a conservative coalition in a snap election from which he'd hoped to benefit but which was instead dominated by anti-immigrant sentiment. The Liberal Party, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, won more seats than the outgoing Social Democrats...
James Brayshaw, 49, an engineer from Liverpool, has worked in Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Denmark for Dataworkforce. Now he is on contract to Nortel, testing circuits across Europe. "I would not go back to anything else. It's a lot more freedom and a lot more money," he says. "You can pick and choose what you want to do." The company offers training when necessary to make sure its contractors fit the temp jobs, which can involve everything from designing new cellular transmission stations and selecting sites for transceiver towers to supervising construction and troubleshooting reception problems...
...received a Ph.D from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1991 and worked at the Rowland Institute before moving to Harvard...
Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark...