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...breathing space between the bombings, Mitzna isn't so reserved. During an often nasty primary campaign, he cast himself as a provincial outsider who promised to "clean out the bullshit culture" of the Labor Party. He wants to bring back people like Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo peace process who withdrew during Ben-Eliezer's reign. He welcomed warm remarks about his election from Arafat, who's utterly demonized by most Israelis now. Though he's married to a Bible teacher, he risked alienating religious voters by admitting that he doesn't believe in God. Born...
...Quiz: Oslo tastes like a) Lutefisk; b) Reindeer; c) Raisin buns; d) Um, you're weird - a city doesn't taste of anything. There's no absolute right answer, but I'd choose c). Every city has its own flavor, and I can't think about Norway's thousand-year-old, Viking-founded capital (pop. 515,000) without recalling the flavor of its traditional raisin buns - warm puffs of barely cinnamony bread punctuated by sweet morsels of fruit...
Berge's sharp words - first at the Nobel press conference, then in an interview with Time at the Nobel Institution's 19th-century mansion in Oslo - provoked rare public rebukes from his startled colleagues, who, in keeping with the committee's low- profile style, did not attend the announcement. Inger-Marie Ytterhorn said that Berge's interpretation didn't reflect the whole panel's, while Hanna Kvanmo denied that the subject even came up at the oval Art Nouveau table where the committee holds all its meetings. Maybe the problem was less what Berge said than that he spoke...
...loudspeaker and a microphone" that has been used to bless peacemakers and to boost their causes - equality in South Africa, freedom in Burma, independence in East Timor. "One cannot say, 'Here's an important process, let's find a name,'" says St?lsett, who is also the Bishop of Oslo. "But it's a bonus if we can send a message...
...competition will be fierce. In addition to proprietary systems from Microsoft and Palm, there's a new browser packaged in Palo Alto, California-based Danger's $200 phone, which includes a camera and e-mail and instant messaging functions. A potential dark horse in the mobile race is Oslo-based Trolltech. Trolltech's technology is based on Linux, a system used mainly on Web servers. Because Linux technology is in the public domain, it can be easily customized for any device. Sharp is using Trolltech's mobile version of Linux in its Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant...