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...least--after a career of mixing cultures: posing as a Chinese woman in Asian dress on the cover of her last album, Homogenic, and collaborating in past projects with American rapper RZA and British musicians Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After traveling so much, I realize how gorgeous the Internet is, bringing...
...persuade and to protest. In the Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse, a group in Denmark that monitors music censorship. "People listen to the radio, to songs. It is music that reaches people's hearts and souls." When music is muzzled, an outlet for self-expression is lost...
...like Chinhoyi, the 77-year-old President may already have his re-election in the bag. He has dismissed warnings of diplomatic sanctions from Washington as "racist threats," ignored advice from the Commonwealth, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and brushed off the withdrawal of aid from Denmark and other European donors. "He's burying his head in the sand," says Morgan Tsvangirai, leader...
...Danish designers try to make their ideas suitable for industrial production,'' says Krogh. "It's something to do with our mentality that we don't like to do things that are very ornate." Krogh claims his own first: he used what is called precompressed wood, a process invented in Denmark, to make strong, durable furniture with plenty of graceful curves...
...black leather supported by chromium-plated legs - resides in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "I try to show that classics are still going strong and can be combined with very modern lighting," says Kjærholm's son Thomas, who operates a furniture store dedicated to Denmark's classic designs and sells furniture worldwide through his website (www.kjaerholms.dk). "My father has been dead 20 years, but interest in his designs is increasing all the time, even a 40-year-old design like the PK22...