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...election is a lot like a movie blockbuster - a fast, thrilling spectacle that keeps people riveted to their seats. Government is a lot like a 12-hour Swedish documentary on the mating habits of elephant seals - slow, grueling, with endless complications and a desperate need for subtitles. We know Arnold Schwarzengger can handle an action blockbuster, and now it?s clear he can handle an election, but is he ready for the challenge of governing the largest state in the nation and the sixth biggest economy in the world? California is about to find out. If he succeeds, Arnold will...
...SIDETRACKED Henning Mankell (Vintage) Veteran Swedish inspector Kurt Wallander seeks a serial killer who scalps his victims
...ended, Britain, France and Germany had failed to agree on a timetable for handing over authority in Iraq. And France and Germany had stoked anger among smaller states by again thumbing their noses at E.U. rules designed to keep state spending in line. In the shadow of the Swedish euro vote, the prospects for coming referendums on the controversial new E.U. constitution - which at least six countries could put to the vote - seemed to darken. If a single country votes no, the new constitution is dead. As the E.U. pursues closer integration, its member states are lining up on either...
...fresh air. That's when plainclothes police nabbed him in a Stockholm suburb last Tuesday night. Police say Svensson, although not formally charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with a knife. Police used closed-circuit television pictures in the store to identify Svensson. The lead investigator on the case, Leif...
...world's most dangerous occupations. Some 24,000 fishermen around the world die each year, and millions more are injured in weather- and equipment-related accidents. In the Baltic, though, there is another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow...