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...rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated, polyester-powder-coated Cake and Sun tables, which catch light to cast shadows in magical and dramatic shapes...
...religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren't any of them unemployed and angry about living in a nation that went to war in Iraq over...
...Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg. Denmark's exploitation of Greenland's mineral resources seems an unlikely background for a detective thriller about the mysterious death of a six-year-old Inuit boy. Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...
...shown sporadically at best. The last films Fellini and Satyajit Ray made never opened here; neither have the most recent films by Godard, Resnais, Antonioni and Kurosawa. The Netherlands' Paul Verhoeven (Spetters) joined a century-long exodus of European talent to Hollywood (where he made Robocop and Showgirls). Denmark's Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) stayed in Europe but made films in English. That leaves a new generation of world masters--Greece's Theo Angelopoulos, Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien, Iran's Abbas Kiarostami--that is largely unknown to Americans. "The auteurs are there," says Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman...
...Scandinavian countries. That's the conclusion of this year's annual global competitiveness survey by the World Economic Forum, which ranks countries according to economic dynamism, the quality of public institutions and technological prowess. Finland once again topped the list (ahead of the U.S.), with Sweden in third place, Denmark at No. 4, Iceland No. 7 and Norway No. 9. "There is no evidence that [high tax rates] are undermining the level of competitiveness," said Augusto Lopez-Claros, the Forum's chief economist, who notes that Scandinavian countries put tax receipts efficiently back into the economy by investing in education...