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...Nobel laureate Gao pre-sented Liu Zaifu, who left China in 1989 and was one of Gao's early advocates, with one of the three gold medals he received from the Swedish academy. Liu, a literary critic residing in the U.S. state of Colorado and a former director of the literature department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, explains why exile in the West has played such a key role in the life of émigré writers: "After fleeing from China, life was hard. We had to adjust to a new culture at a late age. Gao didn...
...commercial interest." CHRISTER TRANSBY, lawyer, on his client's breast implants, which a Swedish court refused to let her write off as a business expense for her job as a stripper...
...moment, markets are not very pleased with the people who make them either. Last week, Stockholm-based Electrolux, the world's largest appliance maker, announced it was eliminating 5,091 jobs worldwide, about 6% of its workforce. Stock markets, which often applaud such "restructuring" moves, instead were sour; one Swedish investment bank even put a rare "sell" recommendation on Electrolux stock. What's ailing the maker of Eurekas and WeedEaters? CEO Hans Straaberg blames heavy competition and certain "under-performing" areas, notably room air conditioners, for which labor and supply costs at the Frigidaire plant in New Jersey are said...
...first by a Chinese author. To many writers, the Nobel has proved a curse, triggering furious envy from rivals, and intensifying crippling perfor-mance anxiety. And some critics carped that Gao was an undeserving mediocrity, hinting that he won only because of his relationship with Goran Malmqvist, his Swedish translator and the sole Chinese-speaking member of the Nobel-awarding Swedish Academy?a charge Malmqvist denies. For Gao, it has been a trying experience. "The prize has brought me a lot of trouble," he admits. A year of book tours and interviews left the normally solitary writer battling high blood...
...inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, 74, the Swedish head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), told TIME. "The troubling thing is that those who want to hide things are also becoming aware. The question is, Who is ahead...