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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two courtiers for the King of Denmark, have a job to do. They will gladly do it, too, if they can only remember what it is and who sent for them. They talk, they joke, they spy on Hamlet. And they escort him to England where they will meet the end that Stoppard's title reserves for them...
...team's trip to Europe over Christmas break this year, Whyte displayed another element of her game that earned her the nickname, "Das Hammer." The team traveled to Switzerland to play in a tournament against teams from Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Unlike women's college hockey in the U.S., this tournament allowed full body checking, a skill that Whyte has been forced to keep under wraps in the Ivies...
...there were five countries in the world with a higher per capita Gross Domestic Product--the best indicator of national prosperity--than the U.S. Four of those countries, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and West Germany, are, in varying degrees, social democracies. The fifth, Japan, succeeds because it has the sort of interventionist industrial policy that conservatives loathe...
According to the report, Shortchanging Education, only Ireland and Australia invest less than the U.S. in basic education in terms of a percentage of gross national product. Of the 16 countries studied, Sweden spends the most (7%), followed by Austria (5.9%), Switzerland (5.8%), Norway (5.3%) and Belgium (4.9%). Denmark and Japan tied at 4.8%, while the U.S. spends only 4.1%. "If the U.S. were to increase spending for primary and secondary school up to the 'average' level found in the other 15 countries," the study says, "we would need to raise spending by over $20 billion annually...
Observers from 19 countries attended the conference and organizers said funding was provided by the Dutch government and church groups from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They said the Canadian government had offered to finance regional follow-up meetings...