Word: olav
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...Hans-Olav Adami, who heads the epidemiology department, says he has been racking his brains to accommodate the needs of roughly 160 students—often at the expense of his full-time faculty—and bring together the department members scattered across three buildings...
...beginning of August, she will travel with former Harvard women’s basketball player Laela Sturdy ’00 and her younger sister, Alexis, to Kimpala, Uganda on a goodwill trip with Right to Play, a Canadian-based NGO founded in 1994 by Norwegian speedskater Johann Olav Koss that uses Olympic athletes to provide humanitarian aid and promote sport in developing countries. Members of the organization include NHL great Wayne Gretzky, NBA star Dikembe Mutumbo, and of course Angela Ruggiero...
...into trouble. In mid-September, economic-crime police raided the company's Stavanger headquarters; they believe a $15 million payment to the Swiss bank account of a consulting firm may have been a bribe destined for Iranian officials. Three top executives of Statoil - chairman Leif Terje Loeddesoel, CEO Olav Fjell (inset above) and executive vice president Richard J. Hubbard - have resigned under pressure because of the growing scandal. "I can see now that I operated on the ethical borderline," Fjell said with Nordic understatement at a news conference. Statoil said it would continue its international operations...