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...Icelanders - from cab drivers who recite economic statistics to Prime Minister Geir Haarde who travels the world calming investors' nerves - the hysteria appears overblown. "What you'd expect to see out of these windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against...
...years late. The former U.S. President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...
...Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, Norway's phone company, where Von Tetzchner and colleague Geir Ivarsoey were trying to develop software for the newly popular Internet. They wrote the first browser software while still at Telenor, but the company wasn't interested in pursuing the project. So the duo formed Opera and rented space from the phone company's research labs...
...international triumphs have not protected her from some searing reviews at home. "Norway has some of the most polluted fjords in the world," charges Geir Wang-Andersen, a toxic-waste activist for Greenpeace. "People abroad see her as this great environmentalist -- but we just laugh a little, because we don't see her that...
Watkins first furnishes some rather elementary biographical details. Munch (Geir Westby) was born in Oslo in 1863, second of five children in a family much battered by medical tragedy. Denounced and vilified at the outset of his career. Munch was accepted, even extolled, as he grew older. Watkins also tries to tunnel into Munch's creative spirit, to watch him work and trace his themes of violent mortality and sexual betrayal to their psychic roots...