you – here we are talking about an immensely huge haystack! Not only that – most of the haystack we can’t even see, and must just guess about its size and composition. Of course, we know that modern technologies [...] at the same time to look for other ways of producing energy. We need the oil, and incomes from oil can help us invest in alternative and renewable energy. On the whole, I see good reasons to be optimistic

ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other p [...] other punishments and as long as the death penalty is maintained, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated. Since 1973, 123 US prisoners have been released from death row after evidence

American accent that makes him cringe. My biggest accom­plish­­ment 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 [...] comm­unity, and the wool. If you see me on the street over the next year shout out a greeting: We can count to 20 together.

not take long for it to become completely demystified. This is not a dream, but real life – and I can’t do anything but love it. Rather than being intimidating, the size of the country is what makes it [...] subsisting, and thus they shape their lives in accordance with who they are into microcosms, which they can truly cherish. So, while the former president (and perhaps future ‘first man’) and I inhabit each others’ [...] this, I suggest Bill Clinton be taken at more then just face value as a great political figure. Much can be gleaned from a man whose self-awareness has allowed him to take on the world and come out on top

marketing the Faroe Islands. - Iceland has gone forward and has shown that seemingly remote places can be seen as even cooler than New York if they market them selves the right way. Now it is our turn. [...] stories, Elin Heinesen explains. And the fact that an American president chooses to visit our islands can also boost our self confidence, and give us the courage to tell even more good stories.

recently formed Council of Elders. The founding of this body is indeed a momentous development. It can only be an immense new force for good to have the accumulated wisdom of the Council being brought to

public pension structures we ensure a financial income basis for the life of the elderly, which we can build upon with trade-union and private pension fonds. The public structures regarding care for the [...] regard to education, employment, income, residence and other basic social rights, • where citizens can take part and function individually and collectively side by side, • where all citizens are able to

a large sorrowful event. As Mr Clinton and Mr Blix have been invited to the Faroes to talk, there can be no doubt that they will have very many interesting aspects to present. They are two larger than

WRONG? AND HOW CAN WE MAKE UP FOR IT? You yourself have stressed that you will fight for a DEMOCRATIC system in the open society for JUSTICE and PEACE in the world With that in mind: How can it be right to [...] us in exactly the situation they have navigated us into to ATTACK and so they can justify ongoing TERRORS and so they can justify ongoing TERRORS - and be supported by co-religionists who wait for their [...] become the victims of a terrible crime and you must suffer horrors that we are so used to Now you can feel on your own skin how it is to be in our stead (shoes) ALWAYS to be wrongest be humiliated be the

the way, visited our country a few months ago) are soul-brothers. And, to turn to the cinema, who can ever forget the yearning for freedom depicted in The Shawshank Redemption or the beauty and melancholy [...] paint the world in colours of black and white. To be sure, the roots of modern terrorism are many and can be found e.g. in the fanaticism and bigotry of figures like Mohammad Ibn Abdel Wahab, Ayman al-Zawahiri [...] spectacle of leaders from some countries in the Northern hemisphere rushing to grab as much as they can from the polar ice-cream, or what lies beneath it, is hardly edifying. In this situation, one warms