at least 1,591 people were executed in 25 countries. At least 3,861 people were sentenced to death in 55 countries. 91 per cent of all known executions took place in six countries: China, Iran, Paki­stan [...] Sudan and the USA. 53 prisoners were executed in the USA in 2006, bringing to 1,057 the total number executed since the use of the death penalty was resumed in 1977. Scientific studies have consistently failed [...] however, seem to be different opinions about some of the most fundamental rights in the Declaration, namely the “right to life, liberty and security” (article 3). People around the world still disagree about

honeymoon trip en route to the Faroe Islands where we will start life together in Klaksvik. After a week of marriage, we left my home in rural America, a place of big highways, big sky and a big family [...] Free from a daily schedule for the first time in months, Ben began to teach me essential Faro­ese. Unfortunately, as he spent most of his youth living in the Phi­lippines his spoken Faro­ese is not so [...] far has been with counting, and I can now tell Ben the price of something in Faroese so long as it is a number below 20. Bush in Greece After a few days of beaches and big meals we grew restless, and have

to begin a new chapter of my life in their country, I was utterly convinced that very few Americans were normal according to the standards on which I usually judge people. In addition, the country simply [...] seemed too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: “I don’t [...] you’re doing it! Living the American Dream!” In the reality of what is the United States, I have not yet encountered this dream. And I doubt if I really believe in its existence. It’s simply too intangible

atmosphere in which social, industrial and economic spheres come together in a expanding dialectic synthesis. This is how we will achieve to be amongst the most advanced nations. We see great ideals in the Nordic [...] suffices necessary support in every-day-life; for those who live at home and those that are so weak that they require daily assistance on residential homes. The legal framework in regards to welfare of the [...] welfare-political frameworks in order to reach a main objective: to ensure an excellent society for all citizens. Dual Strategies for Welfare The vision of welfare originates in a political ambition and it

this office. He represented from the very beginning a generation shift in the corridors of power in the world’s largest superpower. In the international history books, Mr Clinton has firmly written his name [...] between the warring parties in Northern Ireland. Among other notable international achievements is the so-called Dayton-agreement, which ended the civil conflict in Bosnia. At home in the United States, Mr Clinton [...] will find it quite hard to believe we are actually having this visit in our country. I cannot refrain from thinking back to October in 1986, when the then United States President, Mr Ronald Reagan and the

exist in Iran in the fifties in the last century. Who is to know what would have happened if the Western powers, instead of ruining it, had chosen to support and defend this beacon of democracy in a Shia [...] direct descendant of the language of the Vikings. In possession of a language, a history and a cultural identity, the Faroese were, in the twentieth century, in a position to develop a modern culture. Consequently [...] generosity Sweden to us in the Faroes is a cousin. And Swedish is, like the other branches of the Scandinavian language-tree, a sister-tongue. Older people in Tórshavn may remember that in July 1950 a Swedish

died in a traffic accident. A setback of a magnitude hard to grasp on our latitudes where the social safety net is supposed to catch everyone and ensure that we all get the same opportunities in life. This [...] and leaves many behind in ghettos and slums. Small fry slip through the meshes. Any man of meager means who gets his hands on the White House steering wheel is no average Joe. In addition to a good head [...] all obstacles can be overcome. Clinton was born a year after the war ended and has not served in Vietnam. In ‘68 he was 22, by then the youth had declared war on conservative systems and authoritarian political

future American president. The year in Arkansas was very important for Jens Olsen, he says, and it has influenced the choices he was made later in life. - Spending a year in the US taught me to respect people [...] Jens Olsen, chief executive of the Faroese Fish Market, was in Arkansas, USA, as an exchange student in 1988. This was while Bill Clinton was governor, and one day he had the opportunity to meet the man [...] one day, and she wanted me to go to the Governor’s Office and have a picture taken, so that later in life I could say that I had met the American President, says Jens Olsen. And one hot summer day, accompanied

comes a unique geographical location in an area, which both commands an interest from climatologists and in an historical perspective. During the cold war, the Faroes lay in an ocean expanse of great strategical [...] locate all international top meetings in the Faroes. Mr President, When you became President, the democratic part of the world was in need of a true leader. Both in your role as the Governor for Arkansas [...] south, Scotland, the Isles and Ireland One reason why we have succeeded in living here, and still do, on a few rocks scattered in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, is that we have managed to combine

arbeiði í einum djórahandli, meðan ein annar leitar eftir íbúð á svarta kjallaramarknaðinum í Havn. Í London situr ein maður í einum undirgrundartoki, í Miðeystri finnur ein eldri maður sær konu, og ein kvinna [...] Kamban kemur inn á sama tema í aðrari av yrkingum sínum. Persónurin ferðast í undirgrundartoki í London, meðan hurðar og møguleikar flúgva fram við. Eins og kjallaraíbúðin hjá Sámal Kristian Jacobsen er [...] alt tað dapra. Í yrkingini hjá Hanusi Kamban liggur vónin í listarligu eygleiðingi. Persónurin í London fer ikki í holt við lívið, men hann ynskir at eygleiða alt: mammur geva børnum matpakkar á Hampstead