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Amid all this gleaming fanciness, there is one messy room. It's in the back, and it contains, along with copies of The Rainmaker in Norwegian, about 50 linear feet of transcripts, clippings and photographs, all bearing the name Ron Williamson...
There’s something of a loose community of study participants, as well—if you do enough studies, you start to see the same people over and over. The hot Norwegian undergrad on the 15th floor of William James. The occasional crazy Cantabridgian who you hope you won’t be paired up with. The handful of College students who seem to take all the same tests as you. The occasional Boston University student who comes to Allston for the windfall...
...obsessed, Vulcan-eared Star Trek fan, played by Jon Lovitz opposite William Shatner in a classic Saturday Night Live skit. Today the Lovitzization of entertainment is widespread. When Lost used stock footage from Norway to depict the founder of the Hanso Foundation--the apparent prime mover behind its conspiracy--Norwegian fans went nuts speculating over their homeland's connection to the mystery...
...close to the U.S. embassy. During an anti-American demonstration in 2000, security forces looked the other way as a mob stormed the grounds and ransacked the American mission. Amid last winter's protests over Danish cartoons viewed as mocking the Prophet Mohammed, demonstrators burned the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus...
...showroom in New York, where American designers are invited to paw through 200 drawers filled with crystals. There are event sponsorships and clever collaborations with fashion and interior designers, the most successful of which has been Crystal Palace, launched in 2002 for inventive lighting projects. Several of them, particularly Norwegian designer Tord Bontje's Blossom chandeliers in the shape of a branch (the small one is priced $15,500), have been widely copied. "We never just give money or just give product," she explains. "Instead, we say, Please go beyond the comfort zone with your creation. Make the crystals your...