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...head of the Environmental Protection Agency. More worrying, a new easy-to-apply testosterone gel was approved for sale. But by the end of last week, Annika Sorenstam emerged from these feminist shadows. Playing coolly and calmly as the first woman in a PGA tournament since 1945, the Swedish golfer provoked even chauvinist curmudgeons to relent...
...embracing the old American virtue of doing your best against the best, and not letting anything - gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation - get in the way. That was once the core, simple, unifying message of the civil rights movement. Odd, isn't it, that it took a Swedish female golfer to remind...
...many as 500 civilians there during 12 bloody days of combat. In fact, 54 Palestinians, mostly fighters, were dead, as were 23 Israelis, but a myth of Jenin's heroism and martyrdom had been created. Just a day after the battle ended, and with only $9,000 from Swedish television, Hassan began 28 days of filming in the camp. What he learned was not about heroism, but self-respect. "Heroism never changed anything," he says. "People in Jenin resisted, and it enabled them to overcome the celebration of victimhood that's common on both sides." Egteyah isn't the first...
...good war. First quarter results hit record highs at British Petroleum, where net profit soared 136% to $3.7 billion; at Royal Dutch Shell, where profits jumped 96% to $3.91 billion; and at Exxon, which saw profits more than triple to $7.04 billion. Cracker Jacked A crummy week for Swedish cracker-maker Wasa, after a Swedish court ordered it to re-brand a 27-year favorite, Moraknaecke. Why? The crackers aren't made in the right region. With reasoning like that, can euro membership be far behind...
...that boosted Assa Abloy's stock twentyfold. When he left earlier this year, he took with him a personal fortune of $60 million. You might expect Svanberg, now 50, to ease into early retirement. But last month he took over as president and CEO of Ericsson, the sprawling Swedish telecom-equipment maker that's all locked up in a world of trouble. Ericsson hasn't turned a profit in more than two years. It's had four CEOs in five years and has laid off almost half of its once-mighty workforce of 107,000. Why would Svanberg want such...