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...says Bengt Mölleryd of Stockholm's Evli Bank. "He is quite skilled at dealing with both the media and the financial community. He certainly says the right things." Now he'll have to do the right things, if he's going to catch up with Ericsson's Finnish rival, Nokia, which earned $1.07 billion net profit in the first quarter on sales of $7.4 billion. It managed to do so with fewer employees than Ericsson, by concentrating on the healthiest end of the business. Ericsson gets 80% of its revenue from mobile-telephone networks, which connect one phone...
...WITHOUT A PAST. By all accounts, this new offering from veteran Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki is a bizarre, eclectic offering, trafficking heavily in dark humor and kitschy music. Kaurismaki focuses his story on an 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...
...spokesman for that nation's spirit. It's not until later we discover that, say, Akira Kurosawa was the least Japanese of Japanese auteurs, that Satyajit Ray's films had little to do with India's giddy musical movies. Now comes Kaurismaki, a foreign-film Oscar nominee. How Finnish is he? Do the locals really smoke and drink so much? Are they this dour and deadpan funny...
Five teams had already arrived in China, but the American, Canadian and Finnish teams continually delayed their departures prior to the cancellation...
Watching famed Finnish choreographer Lazlo Berdo—one of a number of professionals Bergmann has brought to Harvard in her two-year career—work recently with Harvard dancers convinced her to stay on, she said...