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Trial by jury is a relative rarity throughout the world. Apart from English-speaking countries, it exists in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway and some Swiss cantons. Indeed, 80% of the world's criminal jury trials take place in the U.S. Even at that, because most defendants plead guilty and forgo trial or choose to be tried by a judge alone, the U.S. actually produces only 60,000 criminal jury trials a year. Moreover, the frequency of jury trials varies widely-from only three per 100,000 people in Connecticut, to 144 in Georgia...
...pastor of two country churches in Denmark's North Sea province of West Jutland, the Rev. Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg...
...Caesar. Churchman Krogager keeps God's business and Caesar's nicely separated. Technically, he is only a consultant to Tjaereborg, though he has the consent of his bishop and elders to consult as much as he wants. When other travel agencies complained about his growing activity, Denmark's Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs itself announced that there was no conflict between church work and tourism...
Krogager wears a wristwatch with built-in alarm; when it rings during business conferences, he leaves to attend his pastoral duties for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denmark's national church. Along with separate Sunday services in the towns of Tjaereborg and Sneum, Krogager also works the 41-acre farm where he lives with his wife Gorma, a former actress, and Daughter Kirstine-Louise, 19. Krogager prefers not to ask for a curate to help with the church work in his flourishing parishes. "I am the only pastor in Denmark," he says, "who cannot allow himself...
...Denmark, which wags have described as a constitutional monarchy in which the legislative power rests with the Parliament and the executive power with the breweries, the government goes along with the split. It ought to. Danish beer is taxed at home more heavily than any other beer in Europe, and last year, before the profits were divided, the government took its own share of $90 million. Above all, the friendly competition has helped Carlsberg and Tuborg build up the exports that the country vitally needs...