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...Continental's controls will be Hollis Harris, who resigned last week as president of Delta Airlines after 36 years with that company. SAS, which is 50% publicly held and 50% owned by the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, faces the task of rebuilding a beaten-down company. The polished Scandinavian firm has made a start. Since last year, it has operated a so-called charm school, a two-day training course, for Continental employees at the company's Houston headquarters. While confirming last week that Lorenzo's departure was an essential condition of the deal, SAS chief Jan Carlzon...
...flurry of more than 30 mergers and takeovers involving European banks and insurance companies across the Continent. The aim has been to create institutions that will be big enough to expand Europe-wide and survive the competitive heat when larger institutions from other countries arrive in force. In Denmark, for example, where more than 150 banks serve just 5 million people, a series of unions has taken place since 1988. The most significant: the merging of Den Danske Bank, Copenhagen Handelsbank and Provinsbanken to create Scandinavia's largest lender, with assets of $36 billion...
...TIME/CNN poll, 60% of the people surveyed said they plan to travel a lot while they are young. And it's not just rich students who are doing it. "Travel is an obsession for everyone," says Cheryl Wilson, 21, a University of Pennsylvania graduate who has visited Denmark and Hungary. "The idea of going away, being mobile, is very romantic. It fulfills our sense of adventure...
...ability to decode information from maps, to use an atlas, read latitude and longitude." The class accomplishes this in an atmosphere of controlled chaos. Students throw questions at one another as they pore over their material. "Does Tasmania belong to Australia?" shouts one student. "Since Greenland belongs to Denmark, does that make Copenhagen its capital?" asks another of no one in particular...
Glenn Kiser is also delightful as the aggrieved Prince of Denmark. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard imparts a bit more method into Hamlet's madness than can be found in Shakespeare's text, and Kiser adds a devilish glitter to the part...