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...force by ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. "This situation in Macedonia could spell strike three for the Albanians altogether," says Baton Haxhiu, editor of Kosovo's leading daily Koha Ditore. "Our reputation is being ruined. Our Western friends are turning into enemies." Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Stockholm to meet with leaders of the 15 E.U. countries, said - with an eye to his own problems in Chechnya - "these aren't rebels, but terrorists...
...politicians want to glimpse the excitement of this generation, they might try venturing into some buzzy European neighborhood on a Saturday night in Paris or Stockholm or Prague. Or, for that matter, in Brussels...
...really picture it," Herbie Crichlow says, "I shouldn't be here." No kidding. A brash English import who says he's the "black sheep" of Sweden's low-key pop scene, Crichlow moved to Stockholm for one thing, or more accurately, one woman. The short story: boy meets girl on a Barbados beach, boy falls for girl, girl goes home, boy follows, freezes, acclimatizes, marries...
...Their Trondheim base may be off the beaten path to Stockholm, but does it matter? Hallgeir Rustan, 34, Mikkel S. Eriksen, 28, and Tor Erik Hermansen, 28 - known collectively as Stargate - are making Norway the next big place for pop. For some artists, the trip is obviously worthwhile. Billie Piper scored a British No. 1 with Stargate-produced Day and Night, and S Club 7 got to No. 2 with S Club Party. Others don't even make the trek. Stargate's remixes include radio edits for Sisqo (Unleash the Dragon) and Mariah Carey (Thank God I Found...
Thanks to his chart success with Britney Spears, Celine Dion, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and other acts, Swedish songwriter Max Martin has been called a one-man hit factory. The reclusive Stockholm-based Martin, though, has managed to cling to relative anonymity even as the artists he works with and the hits he writes have been catapulted into the spotlight. He avoids attention, most press coverage and even awards ceremonies. Shortly after Martin closed his longtime studio, Cheiron, and opened a new one, TIME's Jeff Chu sat down with him to talk about his erstwhile rock-star dreams...