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...When batter Dave Hilton hit a double, Murakami, then 28, says he heard a voice telling him to begin his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing. "That was one of the happiest experiences of my life," he recalls. "Perhaps the happiest." A decade later came the momentous publication of Norwegian Wood. Until then, the psychomysteries that formed the bulk of Murakami's work had done well but not spectacularly. Norwegian Wood was a phenomenon. A coming-of-age novel set partly in a college dorm, it was more accessible than anything he had written before-or since-and the Japanese...
According to a Norwegian folk tale, Oleana is the garden of paradise. The restaurant Oleana is a kind of cozy and warm—yet decidedly grown-up—paradise. Nestled in a residential neighborhood a few blocks away from Inman Square proper, Oleana is a glowing oasis that beckons to passersby on Hampshire Street to sample its cuisine—Mediterranean fusion with Spanish, French, Turkish, Armenian and Greek influences. Head chef Ana Sortun (given name: Oleana), an alumna of Harvard Square’s Casablanca, has been cooking and creating to accolades from the likes...
...proving that your enemy’s enemy is your friend, Vellucci switched allegiances in 1965 when Yale researchers announced that Norwegian Leif Ericson, rather than Italian Christopher Columbus, had discovered America. According to a 1971 Crimson article, Vellucci, an Italian, was incensed...
...President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...
...beset by bad marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about to release a new browser that - they swear! - will revolutionize Web surfing on small screen phones. The latest version of its mobile browser, which will...