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...expected 3.6% growth for 2005, almost nonexistent inflation of 1.4%, unemployment scraping the bottom at 3.7% and interest rates down at 2%. With everything so rosy, why does the Norwegian population of 4.6 million seem so eager to toss the center-right minority government of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik out of office in next week's election? Polls indicate a win for the opposition, a Red-Green alliance headed by Labor leader Jens Stoltenberg, who held the premiership for a short period in 2000-01. In the most recent opinion poll, published in the daily newspaper Aftenposten, Labor...
...Korea and Japan hold hands during World Cup ceremonies. Crowd loves it. Candlelight dinner is scheduled Losers LANCE BASS Russians say they're not sure 'N Syncer is fit to be next space tourist. Music world disagrees, and backs plan to launch him into the void KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK Norway's PM nabbed for unwittingly smuggling two huge ivory tusks. He says he packed them by mistake, thinking they were his dentures JUSTINE HENIN No. 5 seed tennis pro gets clobbered in first round of French Open by No. 180 seed Aniko Kapros, daughter of a traveling acrobat...
...plane, and the rumors persisted. Finally, in a midnight declaration, Borten admitted that he had shown the report to Haugestad. "I have been guilty of an indiscretion," he confessed. Last week, after a series of emergency Cabinet meetings, Borten handed his resignation to King Olav V. Kjell Bondevik, 70. Church and Education Minister in Borten's Cabinet, agreed to try to form a new government...
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