Word: scandinavianism
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...prejudice is for a Harvard College,” Bender wrote, “with a certain range and mixture and diversity in the student body—a college with some snobs and some Scandinavian farm boys who skate beautifully and some bright Bronx pre-meds, with some students who care passionately if unwisely…about editing The Crimson or beating Yale...
...higher energy costs faced by European businesses are reduced, there will always be a big gap in competitiveness with the U.S.," says Daniel Cloquet, an energy expert with UNICE, the leading E.U. business lobby group. Countries that have liberalized their energy markets over the past decade - including the Scandinavian nations, the U.K. and Germany - have seen electricity and gas bills drop by 23%. In France, the situation is complicated by the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. Neither of the leading presidential contenders - incumbent Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin - want to be seen caving in to Brussels so close...
Norwegians say they are born with skis on their feet. No wonder the rest of the world has a hard time catching them. Without fuss and fanfare, the sparsely populated Scandinavian country has won more Winter Olympic medals - 240 before arriving at Salt Lake City - than any other competitor, and that includes the Alpine powerhouses of Austria and Switzerland, and the huge teams from the U.S. and Germany...
...Saturday’s results are any indication, the U.S. and Canada have too much talent—from Harvard, in particular—for the Scandinavian countries to stay close...
Aquavit's fare, primarily seafood and game, is Scandinavian, but the preparation and presentation are distinctively Chef Marcus Samuelsson's, acquired on a career journey that has carried him to Paris and through Latin America. Many dishes are served on a block of translucent glass that looks like ice. One is tuna accompanied by horseradish sorbet, colder and more crystalline than the traditional horseradish in cream. Among our other favorites were a soup of sea urchin, seared foie gras and watermelon; and hot smoked arctic char with octopus, mushroom, buckwheat ragout and duck consomme...