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...Swedish elections are ordinarily staid affairs, but this year's political season has been jolted by charges of computer espionage. The Social [an error occurred while processing this directive] Democrats called in the police last week after declaring that the Liberal Party had hacked into their private computer network 78 times between January and March. The ruling SDP has accused Liberal Party campaigners of illegally obtaining its strategy secrets for the Sept. 17 general elections by accessing an Intranet reserved for SDP leadership. Prime Minister and leader of the SDP Göran Persson said he was "shocked" by this...
DIED. Astrid Varnay, 88, Swedish-American soprano whose intense, passionate style energized some of the most demanding roles of German opera, including Strauss's Elektra and Wagner's Isolde, Kundry and Brunnhilde (she sang Brunnhilde more than 300 times); in Munich. Her career took off unexpectedly in 1941 after she was called in as a last-minute, last-choice understudy to play Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, where she eventually performed 200 times. Of her emotional style, she said, "I feel my roles first, then I put them into action...
...When the Swedish Academy gave the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 there were still plenty of people in the U.S. who had no idea that there was such a thing as an Egyptian novelist. Mahfouz, who died Wednesday at 94, was the avatar of an Arab culture a lot of Americans had no concept of: a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, humane, humorous literary culture very different from the Islamic fundamentalism that was more visible on the evening news...
...produced on the order of 50 books, working every morning, never deviating from a disciplined routine. "A writer must sit down to write every day, pick up his pen and try to write something - anything - on a piece of paper," he once said. (According to legend, when the Swedish ambassador paid him a call to inform him that he'd been awarded the Nobel, Mahfouz's wife refused to disturb him: he was taking his regular...
...When Swedish designers Patrick Osterman and Thomas Elbaum couldn't find fun shoes for Elbaum's nephew back in 1998, they decided to launch their own kids' shoe company. Now Vincent, named after the nephew, is available in the U.S. vincentshoestore.com Styles like the sneaker, above, are inspired by fashion runways...