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...United Nations administration backed by an 18,000-strong NATO peacekeeping force, with assistance from an the Kosovo Assembly. But with conflicts brewing around the world, the U.N. and NATO are now looking to get out, and fast. In a recent U.N. report, Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat, said the U.N. needed urgently to refocus its efforts on transferring authority to local leaders and ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities...
...about an hour after the museum opened, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, gloves and ski masks burst through a side entrance. One of them waved a pistol, terrifying visitors, then pointed it at the head of an unarmed female guard and barked in Norwegian, "Lie down!" Meanwhile an accomplice dashed through the ground-floor galleries until he came upon Munch's Madonna from 1893-94. The apotheosis of the painter's many femmes fatales, sexually inviting, weirdly commanding and more than a little poisonous, it's probably his next best known image...
...hushed Oslo nightclub, a woman takes the stage in a black burqa, the all-enveloping garment conservative Muslim women wear in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The woman's arms and hips begin to sway to the sound of a Norwegian folk song. It's a strange spectacle: a vision of conservative Islam in front of a liberal Western audience. "Personally," says a voice from behind the veil, "I think it's a drag to wear a burqa because I always get chased by kids for an autograph. They think I'm Darth Vader." To loud applause, Shabana Rehman shakes...
...oddball humor. She reflects on the Norwegian climate, joking that her family "ran around in the snow with sandals on." She pillories cross-cultural dating, dispensing sardonic tips on "how to pick up a Pakistani chick," and addresses her girlhood fear that the light mustache that appeared on her upper lip would scare off potential suitors. She was reassured by the fact that her mom had found a husband despite similar wisps of down, "but that was before I knew that Dad had been forced to marry her." Not everyone is amused. In an August 2002 article in the Aftenposten...
...like to spend the night, try Norwegian Wood, tel: (44-1803) 867 462, located just five minutes out of town and run by an exemplary new Totnes resident, Heather Nicholson?a practicing nutritional therapist and iridologist (someone who claims to be able to diagnose ailments by studying the iris). This "organic bed-and-breakfast" is housed in a beautifully converted barn, overlooking an undulating patchwork quilt of fields. Guest rooms are decorated in colors that represent "harmonious auras," while breakfasts are prepared according to your food tolerances. Needless to say, there isn't a cream tea in sight...