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...pictures: stained glass in motion, from the First Church of De Mille. Handsome men - their beards neatly curled and trimmed, their robes immaculate - trod on tiptoe through a Judea as verdant and manicured as Forest Lawn. They may have represented Israelites of two millenniums past, but they often looked Nordic; God must have had blue eyes. And they spoke the King's English: King James', with an assist from any screenwriter willing to gussy up his fustian. In these prim tones, the heart's revolution that Jesus preached became an Oxford don's lecture, and his ghastly, redemptive death...
...Sydow, alighting from the Ingmar Bergman films, certainly brings height and hauteur to the role - and if you're going for the Renaissance masters' vision of Jesus as a European, he might as well be Nordic. (Though, as I was reminded by TIME.com's Tony Karon, my guru in all things political, Jesus was a Semite; if he was tall, lank, bearded and dressed in flowing robes, as von Sydow is, the person he would have resembled most would be...Osama bin Laden.) The actor's iconographic superiority gives this Jesus the big frosty balls to tell his followers...
...women’s Nordic captain Anna McLoon, the Harvard skiing teams skated to a 10th place finish this weekend at the Williams Carnival...
...men’s Nordic team was led by freshman Magnus Grimeland, in his first collegiate race after returning from a military obligation in his home country of Norway. Grimeland took 55th in the 10K Free Technique with a time...
...Swedish pollster SIFO. "There is a severe crisis in public confidence in the business sector," says Erik Asbrink, who heads a five-member commission appointed by the Swedish government to restore trust. Skandia is an especially severe psychological blow. The $4.7 billion firm is the largest insurer in the Nordic area and the oldest listed company on the Stockholm exchange. In 1999, Petersson was chosen by Veckans Affärer, a Swedish weekly business magazine, as the best CEO in Sweden. Now he's facing two serious allegations: that the three executives spent nearly $1 million of company money renovating...