Word: professionalizing
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...stalled while they spend months in Swedish-language classes. The government has made attendance in language classes a precondition for receiving asylum benefits. Then comes the slog of requalifying in their profession. While Iraqis in Stockholm praise the Swedes' welcome, they struggle to persuade locals to hire them for professional jobs. "We have a lot of highly educated people driving taxis," says Faried al-Suheil, who fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg late...
Siniora's opponents can hardly be blamed for initially underestimating him, since little in his background prepared him for becoming the guardian of Lebanese democracy. He is an accountant and banker by profession, and he holds the position of Prime Minister as a Sunni Muslim, as the country's constitution...
Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another movie, "King Kong", whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and very large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of...
Whatever happened to the cool kid who sat in the back of high school honors chem and snickered because he was smarter than the teacher?He got his Ph.D. from Harvard, abandoned academia for the film industry, and is now poised to appear in a movie theater near you.Introducing Randy...
The cast has other burdens and traumas in common with its audience. "The killers in Iraq make no exception for artists, writers and actors," said one man. "All of us have lost a relative." Indeed, radical fundamentalists in Iraq long ago started targeting actors as members of an immoral profession...