Word: swedes
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...couldn't have practiced for what followed. Suddenly Annika the Silent Swede had to be Annika the Swedish Celebrity, giving interview after interview, making public appearances and smiling for photos until it hurt. "I freaked out. I was so mentally tired," she says. "I said, 'I'm not here to show up like a Barbie doll...
...model train-enthusiast husband asks Mitch whether or not he likes trains, Mitch replies, perplexed as always, “I took the bus.” But more often than not, the jokes are tired or run thin very quickly. Ed Begley, Jr. plays a Swede with deep Jewish roots, an idea that is only half-baked but is awkwardly employed several times. Even more unsettling is the uneven tone set by the relationship between Mitch and Mickey. While their genuine romantic tension is carefully developed, it is far too out of place in a comedy of this nature...
...Blix took the UNMOVIC position after having served for 17 years as the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (the UN atomic watchdog). He was summoned out of retirement by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan after Security Council members failed to agree on the nomination of fellow Swede Rolf Ekeus to head UNMOVIC. Blix's appointment was unanimously approved by the Security Council, and he led the inspectors back into Iraq last November following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Last Tuesday, Annan ordered the evacuation of all UN personnel from Iraq, a day before...
Blix--one of those rumpled lawyers who always see both sides of a question--could hardly be more different from George W. Bush, a man of clenched jaw and moral clarity. Yet the Swede's words now have the sort of power that some Bush Administration officials would otherwise ascribe only to Holy Writ. If Blix says that his inspectors are making progress on disarming Iraq, then the U.S. probably will not soon win broad international backing for a war. If, on the other hand, Blix concludes that Iraq has had no intention of cooperating with the inspectors, then...
Those impassive eyes do not judge. They merely observe. Blix may look like your grandfather's accountant, but the affable Swede, who heads the U.N. weapons-inspection team in Iraq, is now the eyes of the world, which is counting on him to find out what Saddam has up his sleeve. Blix knows, however, that what you see isn't always what...