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...Oslo-based afternoon daily often cited as a model for how to thrive in the brave new newspaper world. VG is owned by Schibsted, a media conglomerate that embraced the Net early and rode out seven years of heavy losses before getting it right. The stock market wanted CEO Kjell Aamot's head, and Schibsted's board was fully prepared to give it to them. Only Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, the revered former chairman who controlled the Schibsted family's trust, said no. Now VG's website, VG.no, is Norway's biggest destination, period. In 2007 VG Nett, the paper...
...world: an expected 3.6% growth for 2005, almost nonexistent inflation of 1.4%, unemployment scraping the bottom at 3.7% and interest rates down at 2%. With everything so rosy, why does the Norwegian population of 4.6 million seem so eager to toss the center-right minority government of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik out of office in next week's election? Polls indicate a win for the opposition, a Red-Green alliance headed by Labor leader Jens Stoltenberg, who held the premiership for a short period in 2000-01. In the most recent opinion poll, published in the daily newspaper Aftenposten...
...Beleaguered leaders of Korea and Japan hold hands during World Cup ceremonies. Crowd loves it. Candlelight dinner is scheduled Losers LANCE BASS Russians say they're not sure 'N Syncer is fit to be next space tourist. Music world disagrees, and backs plan to launch him into the void KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK Norway's PM nabbed for unwittingly smuggling two huge ivory tusks. He says he packed them by mistake, thinking they were his dentures JUSTINE HENIN No. 5 seed tennis pro gets clobbered in first round of French Open by No. 180 seed Aniko Kapros, daughter of a traveling...
...accord, included China and India, major powers by almost any measure. Giving two such heavyweights a CO2 waiver while the U.S. had to carry its share was galling to some. Proponents of the deal counter, as the biggest polluter, the U.S. should shoulder more of the reduction burden. Says Kjell Larsson, Sweden's Environment Minister and current President of the E.U.: "The U.S. has made it more difficult by using the argument of their economy and saying, 'We cannot afford to take action.' What do you think the argument from the least-developed countries in the world would...
...Last week he was blunter, and so were his foes. "We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first, are the people who live in America," Bush said. "That's my priority." Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson said the Administration's move "sabotages many years of hard work;" his French counterpart, Dominique Voynet, called the U.S. position "suicidal and irresponsible;" and Margot Wallström, the European Union's Commissioner for the environment, seemed to hint at the possibility of calling for sanctions against the E.U.'s biggest trading partner. "This isn't some marginal environmental...