everything that awaits us in the Faroes, but I highly anticipate the natural beauty, a new family and comm­unity, and the wool. If you see me on the street over the next year shout out a greeting: We can count [...] politics. “It is clear to us, based on Iraq, that President Bush is mentally handicapped,” they told us earnestly as we visited and watched the sun set over the city. It is not a bad point, but as the only American [...] only the increasingly devalued U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment

g, the size of the country is what makes it so full of opportunities for a person to shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country [...] 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 think I could live there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate [...] country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned into by their heritage as ’the great melting pot’ (or salad bowl, as I think is more fitting). However

and it is not just a question of luck or coincident that the Faroe Islands suddenly get huge world-media coverage. It turns out that the origin of the recent flood of stories is to be found in the cancelled [...] cooler than New York if they market them selves the right way. Now it is our turn. The Clinton visist is an opportunity to draw attention to our country and create opportunities to tell the good stories [...] visited the islands 10 years ago when a Faroese orchestra was playing some of his violin sonatas. Back then he had never heard of the place, the Faroe Islands were a totally unknown entity in the United

island groups, the Faroes were, in the Middle Ages, dependencies or tax lands of the Kingdom of Norway. However, while Shetland and the Orkneys fell under the harsh dominion of the Scots, the Faroes eventually [...] Monday the first of October our invisibility shall, for a couple of hours, be suspended. Swedish generosity Sweden to us in the Faroes is a cousin. And Swedish is, like the other branches of the Scandinavian [...] culture is being maintained partly through the agency of the Nordic House, which opened here in 1983. But our cultural connection to Sweden is older, being rooted in the pan-Scandinavian outlook of the second

other skills and develop new capacities to participate effectively in the new economy that is so revolutionizing the world today. President Clinton, you once stated that in the "new economy, information, [...] , this is our goal in striving to become one of the most progressive countries in the world – to be a catalyst for new thinking, for new solutions to difficult problems, which flows out of the knowledge [...] undulating circle of unity that not only warms the body when one is wet and cold, but also energizes the soul and stimulates our courage to reach out and embrace the new while remaining grounded in our own identity

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 is not how the American system works. The fierce American capitalism [...] great credit to the House of Industry. I recently read the book about Bobby Fischer, the American chess player who defeated the Soviet chess machine in Reykjavík way back when. This was the first time Icelanders [...] event that would draw the merciless and powerful light of the whole world’s projectors to the combatants in the Laugardals hall, Fischer and Spassky, as well as to the rest of the Icelandic society. This

scattered in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, is that we have managed to combine the best of our ancient traditions with all the new things and aspects which represent the modern world today. The fact that [...] wealth and all of our culture is reflected and conditioned by the intimate association with the sea. The sea around the Faroes – a sea, which encompasses the whole of the Northern hemisphere, and plays [...] 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 and the President for the world’s

who are coming here in good faith. In my opinion the ad is repulsive. In the text, you try to make it sound like you are doing the foreigners a favor by providing some basic information about the labor market [...] properly before the law was passed. The foreign workers arrive here eager to start work, eager to meet new people and to experience a new culture. Just as when we travel abroad, just as when we let our children [...] think that the campaign also shows how you are calling for your new colleagues to be frozen out of the Faroese labor market. There is no offer of a membership in any of your unions. I think this is highly

suitable time frame is negotiated between the license holders and the Faroe Petroleum authorities. In addition, the annual acreage payment, which is a fee the license holders have to pay for the licensed area [...] under the basalt layering is advancing. Drilling through the basalt has proved not to be the problem as first was anticipated. Of other aspects pointing in the right direction and worth mentioning, is that [...] which tasks the license holders must undertake and a time schedule when these undertakings have to be concluded. The objective is always to ensure that the companies have enough time to complete the work that

The main organiser behind the Faroese National Stand at Offshore Northern Seas 2008 (ONS) is the public organisation SamVit – Faroe Islands Enterprise, which is a new organisation resulting from the merger [...] merger between the former Tourist Board and the Trade Council. SamVit is to carry out the chosen national trade policy. The main functions of the organisation are to encourage innovation and enterprise [...] location is important for the shipping industry on its route between Northern Europe and North America. Therefore, in addition to marketing the services offered by the private and public companies at the stand