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...injured, amnesia-addled man who falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health. The film won three awards at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, including Best Actress and the Grand Jury Prize, and in February became the first film from Finland to ever be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The Man Without a Past screens...
...time defending champions, Harvard faces its toughest opponent. While the Crimson's lineup features three Olympic medalists, the Bulldogs rely on five Olympians: Maria Rooth and Erika Holst from Sweden, Hanne Sikio from Finland, Caroline Ouellette from Canada and Jenny Potter from the United States...
Paper tubes first made a debut in Ban’s work in 1986 when he designed an exhibition in Finland. Unable to use wood, Ban accidentally came across a paper tube in his studio, a leftover from a previous project. Immediately attracted to the paper tubes because of their similarity to wood in color, he was converted when he realized their sturdiness, inexpensiveness and availability in various lengths, thicknesses and diameters...
...kerfuffle in Russia. Maltseva's daughter Natalia, a cardiologist, has threatened to sue the newspaper for having "blackened her mother's reputation." The institute's current director, Vitali Zverev, says the last time Maltseva handled smallpox was in 1982, which was also the last time she traveled abroad--to Finland, not Iraq...
...make Windows work with competing server software, while the other key issue - bundling extra programs into Windows - has been remanded to an appeals court for further review. Even if Microsoft prevails, the victory may be hollow. As the rise in the open-source Linux operating system (invented in Finland 11 years ago) shows, Microsoft is increasingly having to move from a world of tight control to one of open standards. Last week the largest European manufacturer committed to a Microsoft-powered Smartphone, Britain's Sendo, abandoned the project just weeks before launch. Now, Sendo will develop a new phone that...