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...partnered with two other NYU film grads. None of us were technologists. The epiphanous moment came when we were sitting around a computer and someone was demo-ing the Mosaic browser and said, "Look, we're now on a computer in Sweden." When you go through art school, all your friends become struggling artists, and the thing that restricts your ability to pursue your art or craft is distribution. The writer needs the publisher; the musician needs the label. All of a sudden there was this medium, and we could completely disintermediate the communication process. For us, that was like...
...question on antitrust grounds. Merita therefore embarked on a two-pronged strategy: use mobile and Internet technology to cut overhead, and become Europe's most aggressive bank in expanding across borders. In April it completed a merger with Denmark's Unidanmark three years after Merita joined forces with Sweden's Nordbanken. The deals have made Merita the largest bank in Scandinavia. "We see ourselves as a pan-Nordic bank with a very powerful distribution network," says Vesa Vainio, who became chairman in April...
...Harvard women’s hockey team’s Sarah Vaillancourt helped Team Canada to a gold medal against Team USA at this weekend’s Four Nations Cup in Leksand, Sweden. The Canadians posted a 2-0 victory over a U.S. Women’s Select Team that included current Harvard tri-captain Caitlin Cahow and former co-captain Julie Chu ‘06-’07. The U.S. outshot Canada, 12-8, in the opening frame but found itself in the hole when former Crimson captain Jennifer Botterill...
...such a passion for all sports that their horizons have expanded. For other Europeans, the National Hockey League, say, offers the best opportunity to see their hometown skaters. "In the NHL, 217 players--30% of the total--come from Europe," Wolff notes. "In countries like the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and others where hockey is the big sport, being able to watch their countrymen in NHL games is huge...
...elementary-school teacher. After college at Catholic University of America, he spent two crucial years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone. What impressed him there most was not the tribal art but the well-made things of everyday life: baskets, boats, woven fabric. From there he moved to Sweden for two years to study printmaking and to experiment on his own with sculpture. "That's where it became pretty clear to me," he says. "I was more interested in making things than in making images of things...