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 [...] 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 since spent the last [...] 24-hours after a bomb went off in a coffee shop late at night on the centrally located Bill Clinton Boulevard. Two people were killed and twelve more were wounded in what locals accredit as a mob hit. As
life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned [...] there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate pretty high over there? Oh, but it’s great that you’re doing it! Living the American Dream!” In the reality of what is the United States, I have not yet [...] 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
originates in a political ambition and it aims for a social system which both: • promotes equality, well-being and reliance; and which • at the same times generates innovation, cooperation and growth. From [...] alternatives, educational, labour and income possibilities. And as far as possible, the physically and mentally disabled ought to be financially self-sufficient and take part in the role of active citizenship [...] regards to welfare of the elderly will be carried out in a new law that ensures the elderly citizens’ rights and options. The Welfare System Strengthens the Availability of Competition. Our objective is to
firmly on to the map of the international world. It is still a fact that when people mention the town of Reykjavik, people say this was the town, which was at the centre off, and created the framework for [...] for one of the most important meetings ever held regarding the dismantling of the nuclear weapons race. Photos of the two men and the environment in Reykjavik were broadcast around the world. We of course [...] around the world are focused upon the Faroes and this visit. We have seen and heard that the international media are dispatching their people to the Faroes to cover this event, so the focus is upon the Faroes
Tórshavn and the villages belonging to the municipality. We are currently expanding at Oyrareingir by Kollafjørður in the North, and right across the same fjord the longest landing quay in the country was recently [...] As one of the smallest capitals in the world, it is a great honor for us to receive a former president of the United States of America, accompanied by one of the most important UN officials in history. [...] several industrial areas in the municipality and more are underway. Expansions are taking place particularly in and around the capital Tórshavn. However, the peripheral areas of the municipality are also
used to see What I mean is, we are used to the old saying: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. On the other hand I don't agree that if you have been hit on one chin then to turn the other as well [...] again WHAT HAVE WE DONE 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: [...] dancing in the streets rejoicing at the tragedy - Later a young girl saying something that I must keep in mind She said: Now it is you Americans who have become the victims of a terrible crime and you must
Icelandic a 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 [...] support and defend this beacon of democracy in a Shia Muslim 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 [...] 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 ship
exchange ideas and extend boundaries. A visit from a former great president of the United States and a former UN weapons inspector is a rare event and Eik Banki welcomes Bill Clinton and Hans Blix. By Marner [...] to be inspired and reminded of how much you can achieve by setting your mind to it, and at the same time it is an opportunity to shed light on what we as a small society have to offer the world. ??At Eik [...] company anywhere in the world, bank or otherwise, which is why we did not hesitate to grant our support to the organisers of the visit. At Eik Banki we believe, that this visit is an excellent opportunity
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 [...] describe and define. As Minister of Industry and Trade, I have watched with great pleasure the mounting interest in our fair isles and the growing collaboration between the Faroese business community and the [...] business and ordinary citizens. We are a country at a crossroads. Our wealth has flowed from the bounty of the sea for centuries. Ever since our first fishing schooners took to the seas in the 1870s, we
into an offensive system when the carpet bombings of the Balkans began. This political mogul will be landing at Vágar airport in just a few hours. What does he want and what good does a visit by a retired [...] preparing an 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 [...] into a global sphere. Later there was the summit between Reagan and 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
