Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...innovation funds” are being provided to professors developing courses, Tatar said. “The big issue that hasn’t been grappled with as far as I can make out are the costs...personnel costs,” said Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell said he expects to teach a gateway course on folklore and nation-building in the year after the next. And Chair of the English Department James Engell hopes to teach a gateway course that will cover themes such as war, slavery and race, love, crime, and existential belief...
...different in big companies. But this law isn't the answer. It was forced down our throats, it creates job insecurity and it's discriminatory. In countries like the U.S., England or Switzerland, where they have a very liberal economic system, or even in the Scandinavian countries where there is a bit more job security, a law like the cpe would have passed without a fuss. Not here. I think it's completely abnormal to be fired at the drop of a hat. It's true in France we have social benefits like almost nowhere else in the world...
...Pelican” is the product of an unlikely trio. Director Rowan W. Dorin ’07 and his crew, led by producers Xin Wei Ngiam ’07 and Currun Singh ’07, have collaborated with Swedish translators in the Harvard Scandinavian Club and the Athena Theater Company to merge two of Strindberg’s later plays. They have successfully created a coherent narrative, linking the themes of the abstract and dense “The Isle of the Dead” with the more expository language of “The Pelican...
...shortened the two plays in order to fuse them together into the 80-minute“Pelican”—spending six months reading about Strindberg and perusing his work—but he has also retranslated them from the original Swedish with the help of Harvard Scandinavian Club president Maria E. Troein ’07. Strindberg, a contemporary of Ibsen, has long been written off as an insignificant playwright by English speakers mainly due to the sloppy translations of his plays...
...someone else's property. Some people are urging the boycott of all products from European countries. Do any of those means of protest actually accomplish anything? The real solution would be not boycotting products but producing them in the first place. Just imagine if Pakistan were supplying medicines to Scandinavian countries and could withhold the supplies in protest. Muslims must become independent of Europe by making themselves strong economically and technically. Noor Uddin Islamabad...