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...year-old Swedish woman arrested for home brewing illegal alcohol was let off a jail sentence because at 350 pounds she was too fat to handle her own personal hygiene. She would have been in the slammer...
...know that money can't buy love, class or happiness, but you'd think it would have some influence over aging Scandinavian pop stars. Sadly, it is not so. The former band mates of ABBA, the globe-conquering Swedish quartet whose voices soared and members intermarried in the 1970s, have refused a $1 billion offer to reunite for a 100-concert tour. "It's a hell of a lot of money to say no to," said ABBA alum Benny Andersson, "but we decided it wasn't for us." The overture came from a U.S.-British consortium that prefers to remain...
...world has gone mad and we are all of it. What's worse is we made it that way. Or at least, that's the way of the world according to the master Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg. In truly modernist fashion, the world of August Strindberg's experimental masterpiece, Miss Julie, now playing with the Coyote Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, is a world where people search to create their own destinies out of the shards of the civilization left behind and the pitiful results of past human choices. In the preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg claims...
Saturday night I meet a senior from the class of '99-'00 with twelve languages from Spanish to Swedish, Italian to Urdu, Punjabi to Persian at the tip of his tongue. (The other half-dozen are Hindi, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and, yes, English.) "I was born in India, but we left when I was six months old," he says. "Then we were in Iran for three years, hence the Persian. We speak Hindi at home, but my parents answer in English." Home? "New Jersey...
...forward. "My parents are ethnically Punjabis...Spanish was high school...After Spanish came French...Urdu spoken is not so different from Hindi...Mandarin I took at Harvard and then I was in Beijing for the summer...German I did at Harvard and I spent all last year in Germany...Swedish was at Harvard too...Portuguese I'm taking now." Next year? "I'm going to be a consultant." Ah, a Harvard student after...