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Over at the State Department, officials initially insisted that there was nothing unusual about their efforts to speed up Freedom of Information Act requests for records of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's youthful travels to Oslo and London -- even though such requests routinely take many months to process. Last week department spokesman Richard Boucher reversed himself, admitting that deviating from standard procedure was "clearly a mistake." But he blamed it on several unidentified "low-level people" and denied that political pressure had anything to do with the requests. That claim would be more convincing had it not followed another incident...
...interest in politics began early. While shewas a student at Oslo University, Brundtlandserved as the deputy chair of the Labor PartyStudent Union...
...graduated form the Medical School of theUniversity of Oslo in 1963 and received a master'sdegree in public health from the Harvard School ofPublic Health in 1965. She then began her career,as a health official, working as a medical officerfor the Norwegian Directorate of Health from 1966to 1968. In 1969, she was appointed assistantmedical director of the city of Oslo's Board ofHealth, a position she held until...
...Chilean pavilion has a 60-ton iceberg in an indoor pond. But it's the well-conceived, meticulously wrought Norwegian pavilion that triumphs in the ice-water category. In fact, Norway's building, a witty, sublime little Constructivist jewel box designed by Oslo architect Pal Henry Engh, is among the best at Expo...
...prize, which includes a gold medal and about $1 million, will be presented in Oslo in December, but Aung San Suu Kyi is not likely to be there. The junta has told her she can leave the country only if she agrees never to return, a condition she flatly refuses. Like other foes of injustice, whose efforts take place far off the world's stage, she cannot know what the outcome of her struggle will...