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...battered mom and her wary, angry kids take refuge in a Stockholm commune, mismanaged by her sweetly passive brother. The time is the early '70s, and some of the hippies are, perhaps, secretly yearning for red meat, TV and conventional structures. Still, they have some useful things to teach their visitors about free-form domesticity. And some equally useful things to learn about traditional virtue. We, meanwhile, are free to adore a sad, funny, always good-natured film that eccentrically, tolerantly explores that moment when revolutionary ardor commingled with bourgeois stolidity to form our present weirdly ambiguous culture...
Last December Ericsson's top brass threw a 50th-birthday dinner for Marks at the tony Stallmastaregarden restaurant in Stockholm. While thanking his hosts and lauding their partnership, Marks launched into a bold new pitch: What Ericsson really ought to do, he said, was jettison all its mobile-phone operations. The next morning he made a formal proposal. Ten days later, Ericsson agreed to get out of the cell phone-manufacturing business. "It turns out that, increasingly, companies want not just a supplier but someone to run a part of their business for them," says Marks. "The Ericsson deal...
...being laid off has affected workers in four key European countries may provide some of the answers. Take Abdul Aziz Masifi, who emigrated from Iraqi Kurdistan to Sweden eight years ago. Masifi, 33, had been working as a machine operator at Ericsson's mobile systems unit in the Stockholm suburb of Kista for the past three years. Last month Masifi, who earned $1,700 a month with overtime, was called in to his supervisor's office and told that he was among 225 employees in his department being laid off. "I was a bit shocked, but I believe that...
Taylor’s finish of 56.28 seconds in the preliminaries was a considerable improvement over her dismal 57.95-second performance in her most recent IAAF Grand Prix race in Stockholm on July 17, but still short of the personal record of 55.46 seconds she set at Zagreb on July...
...League meet in Monaco last Friday with a 1.95-meter height—her best of the summer—and then jumped 1.89 meters to place fourth at a Grand Prix meet in London two days later. Taylor most recently placed seventh at a Grand Prix meet in Stockholm with a time of 57.95 seconds, well off of her personal best of 55.46 seconds, which she ran in Zagreb on July...