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...bored with boutique hotels? Does the phrase "designer accommodation" fill you with ennui as you contemplate the unvarying Minimalism and terrible pretension that it so often conjures up? Then Swedish artist turned hotelier Mikael Genberg can help you. Located in Västerås-one of Sweden's oldest cities and just 100 km west of Stockholm-his Hotel Woodpecker and Otter Inn will bring out the inner child in any jaded traveler...
Over the past two years, chief executives of 17 of the euro zone's 50 biggest public companies have been replaced, with almost half leaving under pressure. (That number doesn't include a cluster of large British, Swiss and Swedish firms where heads have also rolled.) Those include financial giants like Germany's Allianz and Credit Suisse of Switzerland; media titans, such as France's Vivendi Universal and Germany's Bertelsmann; and a bevy of telecom behemoths, such as France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Britain's Cable & Wireless...
...past quarter, it might seem a little churlish to suggest its glory days are over. Its chairman, Bill Gates, even reclaimed his title as the world's richest man, after a widely published story claiming that the founder of Ikea had replaced him turned out to be so many Swedish meatballs. And Gates' baby, based in Redmond, Wash., is still by far the largest software maker in the world, with a healthy $56 billion in the bank and revenue conservatively expected to rise 5% next year, to about $38 billion. It has buried the hatchet with Sun Microsystems...
...still the top-ranked golfer in the world. That little fact seems to escape the sporting public given to whispers about Tiger Woods these days. He hasn't won a major in almost two years--is his knee bothering him? Is Elin Nordegren, the Swedish beauty to whom Woods proposed in November (she said yes), a distraction? Does he miss Butch Harmon, his old swing coach? Woods just flashes a $75 million smile. "I'm so close to putting it together," he promised while finishing tied for 22nd in this year's Masters tournament...
...Pops concert tonight, which is Swedish night, the following program will be played: Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Supre Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninov Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Sigurd Jersaliar" Grieg a. In the Hall of the King b. Festival Marea Saeterjentens Sondag (Solitude on the Mountain) Bull Svendsell Swedish Wedding March Soderman Second Norwegian Rhapsody Svendsen Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Humeresque Tehaikovsky-Jacchia Waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss