Word: sweden
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...first political act was to protest against the war in Iraq - are consumed by anti-Americanism, he says, and refuse to distinguish between the American people and the U.S. government. Suspicion also clouds the thinking of some university administrators. When Gunlög Fur, a professor of history at Sweden's Växjö University, tried to set up an American-studies program, the board of governors turned her down. "I got some fairly confrontational questions," she recalls. "They asked, 'Is this program meant to promote the United States...
...strikingly different reception of your novels in different countries?JC: Yes, the reading demographic in different countries varies enormously. In Korea and Japan apparently lots of punks read my books. In Russia they’re popular among both university students and women. In Italy, France, and Sweden the books are categorized as a sort of “surreal noir” and the hipster crowds there buy them. The variety delights me and I often find myself grinning like a child when I hear who likes them.—Interview conducted, condensed and edited by Rebecca...
Will the European plans work? There is one hopeful precedent, in Sweden, which in the early 1990s solved its own banking crisis by guaranteeing deposits, injecting huge amounts of liquidity into the banking system via the central bank, and forcing banks to write down the value of their assets very quickly. In describing why that bailout worked, Urban Baeckstroem, the former Swedish central bank president who played a central role in the rescue, has identified some other vital measures. The first is that the Swedish government quickly moved to clean up government finances at the same time as it bailed...
...Before this latest crisis, investment banks and their executives were hailed by the media as heroes. Now they are suddenly cursed as villains. When the big blame game is played, the role of the media should be included on the score sheet. Roger Almeberg, Helsingborg, Sweden...
...bearer of good news from Sweden did leave a message, but Chalfie said that he did not think to check the machine when he awoke...