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...exhibit of next-generation design stars, Denmark's Anne Bannick and Lene Vad Jensen displayed cutlery made from corn. Another wild idea: Eric Bergman's sandals with seeds for soil-cleaning plants buried in the soles. Now that's back to nature...
Leth, a genial gent who serves as Denmark's honorary consul in Haiti, finds each of the obstructions "satanic" and "ruinous." He's like the well-behaved weekend guest of a dotty lord who has refurbished the bedrooms in his country house as torture chambers. But Leth is also a game fellow who realizes, perhaps more quickly than Von Trier, that all art has its rules and that the stranger the rules, the more fun in following and subverting them. Leth's Cuban segment is a suave and colorful abstraction; the cartoon (made in collaboration with Waking Life co-director...
MOVING TOWARD MARRIAGE The State of Gay Union in Europe Registered Partnerships In 1989, Denmark became the first country to institute legislation granting registered same-sex partners the same rights as married couples. Adoption, artificial insemination and church weddings were not part of the deal, though by 1999, couples could adopt each other's children. Norway, Sweden and Iceland all enacted similar legislation in 1996, and Finland followed suit six years later. In 2001, Germany enacted a law that allows same-sex couples to register for "life partnerships," but a second act - promising equality on taxes, pensions and child custody...
...Greens' orientation towards openness and equality." What better time to demonstrate that commitment, he says, than just before the June 10-13 elections for the European Parliament? Same-sex legal partnerships - though not full-fledged marriages - were first approved in Europe in the Nordic countries. Fifteen years ago Denmark recognized "registered partnerships," which gave gay and lesbian couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians in April 2001 by jettisoning all distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages. "In the Netherlands...
MARRIED. Australian MARY DONALDSON, 32, to Denmark's CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK, 35; in Copenhagen. The couple met in a bar during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Now the onetime real estate agent is in line to be queen...