Word: oslo
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FREDRIK S. HEFFERMEHL Oslo...
...favorite for this year is former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari,? said Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, who gave the statesman a 50% chance of taking the prize for his role brokering a peace between the the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government. ?He has been involved in several peace processes in his life, in Libya, the Balkan; he has a special role in Kosovo; but the main reason is the role he played in Indonesia...
...that some Muslims saw as directed at them. And a rash of new books has started to warn that some of Europe's cherished traditions are under attack. In While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, expatriate American author Bruce Bawer, who lives in Oslo, paints a picture of a weakened and directionless Europe besieged by extremists intent on imposing Shari'a law. Barring a sudden about-face in Europe's policy of "appeasement" toward "intolerant" Islam, says Bawer, Europe faces "a long twilight of Balkanization with Europe divided into warring pockets of Muslims...
...recognition - it's a majority consensus that includes many of the voters of President Mahmoud Abbas's own Fatah party. In part, as Israeli commentator Danny Rubinstein notes, that reflects a widely held belief among Palestinians that "Yasser Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement and what did they gain from that? Only suffering and misfortune." In fact, as Rubinstein notes, the settler population in the West Bank actually doubled during the Oslo years...
RECOVERED. The Scream (pictured) and Madonna, two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004; in Oslo. Three men were given jail sentences in May for their roles in the daring daytime theft, but two others involved are still at large. Police have not released details of the paintings' return; museum experts who authenticated the works said they were scarcely damaged...