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...leaders solidify their bases in both the U.S. and Israel, a review of the frozen Oslo talks is revealing, but not at all encouraging...
...Since 1995, when the first Opera browser was written, the company has at least doubled its workforce every year and now has more than 100 people at its Oslo headquarters. Though the firm became profitable in 1998, because of its expansion it ran a $450,000 loss last year on turnover of $2.2 million. Remarkably, Opera didn't receive any venture capital funding until last year. "Potential investors would come to us, but we're happy we didn't go with them," Von Tetzchner says. "For a small company with five employees they would have taken over, dug a grave...
...tucked away within the Rose Art Museum, at Brandeis University. The Rose Art Museum is a haven for contemporary art in New England. A water fountain in the next room provides a constant sonic backdrop for the exhibit, which unfolds in a single room. We begin with Deichmanske Bibliothek Oslo III (2000), which, like three of the other photographs in the exhibit, is taken from Hšfers series on libraries. 80 of these pictures were exhibited recently in the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerlandthe selection here only begins to give us a sense for Hšfers perception of space...
...images confirms Hofer's documentary aim. In several of the library photographs, we can almost make out the titles on the sides of the books, but not quite. The size almost seems to have been chosen with this aim in mind. This aim crystallizes when "Deichmanske Bibliothek Oslo III" is juxtaposed with "Wikingsmuseum Oslo I," which portrays an old Norse ship that leaps out of the frame, prow-forward. The singularity of purpose in this image, taken with the well-composed light streaming in from windows, imparts a striking ecclesiastical quality to the work. Hofer refrains, however, from photographing places...
...winner Shimon Peres - is designed to mollify Arab and international concern over Sharon's hawkish reputation. As much as Sharon aides vow to get tough with the Palestinians, they're also careful to emphasize that he wants dialogue. But that dialogue is unlikely to be a continuation of the Oslo peace process: While he's undertaken to abide by formal agreements signed by his predecessors, he's made abundantly clear that he has no intention of picking up negotiations where Barak left them, and that the Palestinians should disregard the offers made at the negotiating table by the previous government...