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...STOCKHOLM, Sweden--While winning a Nobel Prize seems contingent upon the possession of an industrious and ingenious mind, a familiarity with ballroom dancing and a disposition for partying are also essential for prospective nominees, it seems...
...life is the growing bond between the captive, Keely, and her grandmotherly keeper, Du. Part of the closeness is their natural sympathy as women beleaguered by men. Part is a shared, stereotypically feminine impulse to focus on an individual situation more than an abstract principle. Part, too, is the "Stockholm syndrome" of intimacy between hostage and hostage taker as a way of enduring forced togetherness. The effect is especially strong in this situation because, unlike most hostages, the young woman has no fear of being murdered -- her captors are desperate to keep her alive, if only as an incubator...
After cutting a hole through the roof of Sweden's Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, thieves walked away with $75 million worth of uninsured artworks by Picasso and Georges Braque.The stolen paintings and bronze sculpture are extremely well known, so whoever took them will never be able to display or sell them openly...
Underlying this success is the buoyancy of individual stocks. Every major U.S. stock index has been hitting new highs. At the same time, foreign exchanges from Singapore to Stockholm have been setting records of their own (see box). All that makes the pros nervous. "By the 5th of November, if we don't have a 10% drop, we will have had the longest-running stock-market expansion in modern times," says A. Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical Services, which tracks mutual funds. "We're clearly long in the tooth." Says Dan Case, president of the San Francisco-based brokerage...
...French election may well have signaled the final act in the history of West European socialism, whose roots, like the very notion of left and right politics, go back to the French Revolution. From Stockholm to Rome, from Lisbon to Bonn, socialist and social-democratic movements are in trouble. The Italian party is entangled in financial scandals that prompted Bettino Craxi's resignation as chairman and may put dozens of members behind bars. In Spain, Felipe Gonzalez's party could well face defeat in elections later this year. Britain's Labour Party has been unable to win a national election...