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...importance of the award went far beyond the $192,000 in cash or the gold medal emblazoned with an image of the award's founder, 19th century Inventor Alfred Nobel, that the winner will receive in Oslo on Dec. 10. Walesa's selection boosted the sagging morale of a movement that has been crippled since General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law in December 1981. For Poland's government, it was a stinging reminder that the world had not forgotten the ideals behind Solidarity's struggle...
...rush to hit the beach the necessity of having to read the breezy text or the cute but helpful marginal annotations. Although the Fisher European tour whirls through 18 countries, it is often finely detailed, right down to the best restaurant in Delphi (Grigoris) and the best attraction in Oslo (Vigeland Sculptures, Frogner Park...
...Swedish claims were bolstered when Norway announced that a naval frigate had fired a missile at a suspicious submarine, also believed to be Soviet, near its main naval base northwest of Oslo. Three ships, two submarines and a flock of aircraft joined in a hunt for the vessel, but at week's end it seemed to have disappeared in Norway's rocky fjords...
...waves equally enthusiastic about cross-country skiing. He and his wife learned the sport in Norway during his sabbatical. "It's testimony to my extraordinary ignorance of sking that I didn't even know there were two kinds. Now I am frightened by downhill skiing. When we were in Oslo I went up to the top of the Holmenkollen ski jump, the Olympic ski jump ther, and I could not imagine why people would launch themselves off the top of that thing voluntarily. I decided I would stick to cross-country...
...Prado Museum. Washington's National Gallery Director J. Carter Brown, Scholars William Jordan at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Jonathan Brown at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and Richard Kagan of Johns Hopkins. They begged and borrowed at museums ranging from Oslo to San Francisco; in the end nearly half of the 66 works came from Spain, either from the Prado or the Toledo museum, and none of these have ever been seen in the U.S. before. The resulting show, the largest assemblage of El Greco's works ever seen, opened...