Word: swedishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat famed for his recent work as U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, said last night that the United States should spearhead the nuclear disarmament effort. He spoke before a full audience in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. The U.S. is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, but has refused to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been ratified by 138 states world wide. “I would like to see the U.S. come back to the role of ‘lead wolf’, and come...
...into vogue. Pop culture of every kind was exploding. P.T. Barnum operated an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan that featured stage plays, vaudeville, freak shows, a menagerie and a somewhat insane museum of natural history. In 1850, Barnum promoted the first American tour of the first international superstar--the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, for whom he stirred up such hysteria that on the day she arrived in New York, almost one-tenth of the city thronged the wharves to get a glimpse...
Even in Stockholm, Iraqis often find their careers stalled while they spend months in Swedish-language classes. The government has made attendance in language classes a precondition for receiving asylum benefits. Then comes the slog of requalifying in their profession. While Iraqis in Stockholm praise the Swedes' welcome, they struggle to persuade locals to hire them for professional jobs. "We have a lot of highly educated people driving taxis," says Faried al-Suheil, who fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall...
...find accommodations once their refugee status is officially approved, usually within a few weeks of arrival. Most end up in Sweden's heavily immigrant ghettos, like the Stockholm neighborhood of Rinkeby. The area's expanse of characterless high-rise apartment buildings dates back to the 1960s, when the Swedish government poured billions into public housing. Driving into the area from Stockholm's gracious old city is like entering another country. In fact, there are few reasons that Swedes would ever visit. Little Swedish is heard in the Middle Eastern and African supermarkets, barbershops and call-service outlets; these days...
Government officials say they try to steer Iraqis to smaller towns, where housing is cheaper and their skills are in greater demand. But Iraqis resist. "It's a major problem for us," says Mattias Sjöberg, a migration officer at the Swedish Migration Board in Stockholm. "We send people to the north or down south, but in the end many Iraqis end up in Stockholm, where there is a [Muslim] community...