Suðurpólinum: Victory goes to the man who has made all arrangements in advance People call it luck ! Deafeat awaits the man who has not taken the nescessary measures in time Thats is called bad luck ! Høvundarnir [...] opnari pannu stríðast tey ein áhaldandi bardaga ímóti konservativa bretska hugtakinum: ”Panic of error is the death of progress.” Jonhard Mikkelsen og Anfinnur í Skála eru tveir teirra. Í sjey ár hava teir virkað
into my hand "Hi, what is your name?" I give him a smile and toss my hair "Mike! can I ask the same?" "´x´ is my name, how do you do?" Smiles and sends me his eyes. One hand is his, the other one pulled "Fine [...] "Fine, but I gotta fly." His face fades from my mind In and out this night. When all is closed and people crowd The stranger is no where in sight. Oh well, I guess that´s that What more can I demand. I [...] makes my head grow. Weeks have passed, a weekend is planed The girls and I will go. To a "club", way down south It´s called "DJ - Show" Music´s fab, the crowd is wild We´re dancing all night long. They´re all
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 who was later to [...] 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 [...] only there for a year, the country is still dear to my heart. When Jens Olsen thinks of the US, he thinks of his American family. And that is indeed one of the main goals of the student-exchange organisation
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 [...] important role as the protector of democracy and the peace creating and retaining factor of the world. In the aftermath of all this, you have spent much energy in the prevention of the many dangers and [...] 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
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 [...] Gorbatjov and today the Icelanders feel right at home in all the world’s marble halls. Perhaps the capital of a colony is not as interesting as the capital of a republic. But speaking of the chess effect, a
great pleasure the mounting interest in our fair isles and the growing collaboration between the Faroese business community and the world at large, especially with the United States. The arrival of such [...] Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and one of the principal drafters of the Declaration of Independence, once reflected in a letter written in 1803 to James Monroe that some men [...] Islands to become on of the most progressive countries in the world. There is much to be done, without question. The path before us is indeed a difficult climb. But we are a tenacious and gifted people
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 [...] country in the Middle East? So, in addition to honesty, humility and the revival of the principles of true humanity, the world seems to be in need of the wisdom of professional statesmen. Quoting the poet [...] 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
BUT to the President of the mightiest nation of the world it is unseemly to lose composure and promise retaliation (revenge) On the screen I also saw people dancing in the streets rejoicing at the tragedy [...] system in the open society for JUSTICE and PEACE in the world With that in mind: How can it be right to attack with Persecution Invation Bombs Revenge Then the INN-DOERS have got us in exactly the situation [...] keep in mind She said: Now it is you Americans who have 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
this was the town, which was at the centre off, and created the framework for one of the most important meetings ever held regarding the dismantling of the nuclear weapons race. Photos of the two men and [...] and the environment in Reykjavik were broadcast around the world. We of course aspire to the same ambition, which is that when two such dignitaries visit our country this will assist in the promotion of [...] President ever to hold 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
globalisation, the very foundation is the development of the Faroese welfare society. This is why we for the first time with Vision 2015 have made strategic comprehensive plans for welfare of all the most important [...] 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 [...] and • with the highest fertility rate in Europe creating well-being and continuing availability on the labour market. Thus the foundation for a social economic balance between generations is strengthened