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...It’s a very different branch of Harvards,” he says, going on to explain that it has nothing really to do with the Puritanical Harvards at all. “My parents came form Iceland. Our family name is rather difficult to pronounce,” he says, attempting to phonetically spell the Icelandic Heidman (his best attempt: hayth-man). Young John Heidman was given the middle name Harvard by his mother, who was partial to the Harvard training aircraft that the Canadian military flew at noisy intervals over their Winnipeg home. But when...
...laid to rest. The press called for the resignation of a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair who suggested that Kelly was a Walter Mitty fantasist. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon was criticized for going on holiday instead of attending the funeral. Wave of Protest ICELAND The government's announcement that it was to re-start whaling after a 14-year break met with protests from environmental groups, such as the World Wildlife Fund, and the tourist industry. The International Whaling Commission approved a plan to kill 38 minke whales for "scientific research"; the WWF charged that the plan is really...
...beautiful game, but Petignat made a rarer call: she decided to become a referee. What a call it turned out to be. Petignat, 36, is set to become the first woman ever to referee an international men's club soccer match when Sweden's AIK Solna plays Iceland's Fylkir this month in the UEFA Cup qualifying round in Sweden. Although...
Conservation is there to ensure the continuation of whaling. It's a means to an end - STEFAN ASMUNDSSON, Head of Iceland's IWC delegation
...This time around, familiar battles led to familiar outcomes. Japan was denied permission to begin new "scientific" whaling operations - in which 300 more whales would be taken - because the IWC believed it would be thinly disguised hunting. Iceland recently announced an intention to return to commercial whaling by 2006 - following a "scientific" kill of 500 whales over a two-year span. The commission slapped down the idea after its scientific committee found the proposal "deficient in almost every respect." But the environmentalists, too, had difficulty in some areas. Proposals for two new whale sanctuaries, in the South Atlantic...