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...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 one evening. Six taxis were parked along the snowbound sidewalk while the drivers celebrated the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura inside. "The Swedes don't want to hire us" for skilled work, al-Suheil says...
...workers will soon be leaving or facing salary cuts of up to 70%. The film festival has been cancelled, and the city-run tourism facilities have closed until they can be purchased by private companies that would consider a coal history museum in a depressed and snowbound mountain town to be a winning investment. (Interested parties can contact Keiji Hosokawa, who runs tourism promotion for Yubari - at least until his department is eliminated in March.) Even as it raises taxes, the city is closing schools, libraries and nursing homes in a desperate effort to cut costs. Unsurprisingly, many Yubarians...
...sand was probably the best way to experience “real” Greek culture and do something totally different from my usual routine. The sun usually gives me freckles or second-degree burns—sometimes even in the dead of winter during a 15 minute snowbound trek to Widener. But I took cues from locals on how to enjoy the sun without a case of heat stroke, and found myself waxing philosophical in the Mediterannean instead of at the museum.Granted, by the end of summer my brother was ten shades darker than me just from staying inside...
...just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that the vote was rigged, and a crowd of protesters had begun to gather in Kiev's freezing, snowbound Independence Square. On Nov. 25, Dmitruk was assigned to translate the afternoon news into sign language for a deaf audience of some 100,000. But instead of repeating the official announcement that Yushchenko had lost, she signed instead: "Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe the Central Electoral Commission. They...
...Snowbound, the Harvard hockey team had a long Saturday night to spend in upstate New York, and a long bus ride back yesterday, made worse by the fact that the six seniors on the bus hadn’t won in Lynah during their four seasons...