Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussion, moderated by Senior CNN Correspondent Judy Woodruff, included the present or former leaders of Canada, Lithuania, Bermuda, Dominica, Iceland, Poland, Nicaragua and Turkey...
...founder of the Council of Women Leaders and the former prime minister of Iceland, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, said that both male and female leaders often feel alone...
...underachievers. Even our smartest students are underachievers. But, before getting too far into this vein, I should add that there may be some room for quibbling. The age of the students varied from around 16, in Russia, to 21 in Iceland, if this makes anyone feel better. Naturally the Russians scored higher than we did in all the divisions anyway, so this caveat is not all that much of a consolation...
DIED. HALLDOR LAXNESS, 95, Iceland's most famous man of letters and 1955 Nobel prizewinner; in Reykjavik...
...Nagano is the unpretentious town you learn to like, Hakuba, an hour away by bus (and site of many of the snowy events) is the practiced charmer that grabs you instantly. This is in part, no doubt, because Nagano is a city with 360,000 people--more populous than Iceland--while Hakuba is a village of just 9,400 residents, a picture-perfect poster site for the Japan Alps with its Chalet Heidihof pensions and white birch forests encircled by snowcaps reflected in the Princess River...