links for 2009-01-31
January 31st, 2009 — 6:30pm
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Archive for January 2009
links for 2009-01-30
January 30th, 2009 — 6:30pm
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Aftale mellem regeringen (Venstre og De Konservative), Socialdemokraterne, Dansk Folkeparti, Socialistisk Folkeparti, Det Radikale Venstre og Liberal Alliance om En grøn trafikpolitik
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Head of …
January 30th, 2009 — 12:35pm
Politiken has a few problems with assigning incoming Icelandic PM Johanna Sigurðardottir (apologies for not getting all of the apostrophes right) her correct role.
Ms. Sigurðardottir will be head of government. The Icelandic head of state is Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.
I also learnt something: The Icelandic word for “political science” is stjórnmálafræði. Well… (And in case any Danish journalist reads this – the correct Danish translation of “political science” is “statskundskab”, not “politisk videnskab”!)
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links for 2009-01-29
January 29th, 2009 — 6:30pm
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Hva vil vi med universitetene?Gjenreis allmenndannelsen i den høyere utdanningen her i landet! Nå har et stadig mer spesialisert samfunn behov for akademikere som kan tenke langt utover sine egne fag.
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Darwin – The Series
January 28th, 2009 — 1:46pm
Speaking of birthdays, 2009 is also the bicentennial of Charles Darwin. Melwyn Bragg made a four-part special series of In Our Time to cover Darwin’s life and science. Unfortunately no longer available as podcasts but only as streaming radio.
Still: Well worth a listen.
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links for 2009-01-27
January 27th, 2009 — 6:30pm
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Metropolitan Review Copenhagen
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Indlæg ved Europaudvalgets høring om ØMU’en, Landstingssalen, den 22. januar 2009.
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Statsministeriet – Euro-høring i FolketingetStatsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussens indlæg ved åbning af euro-høring på Christiansborg den 22. januar 2009
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Cycles and Countercycles
January 27th, 2009 — 4:04pm
From my time in Sweden, I, like my colleagues, had a tendency to view the financing of higher education as counter-cyclical: Basically, a recession would bring more students and more money, a boom fewer students and less money.
In the US, the tendency is the other way round, at least for private universities which now suffer under the financial crisis. And more bad news.
HT: Leiter Reports.
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Happy Birthday to You, Dear Willie
January 27th, 2009 — 2:51pm
Well, most Danes probably wouldn’t call Willie (i.e. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany) “Dear”, even if he once during a visit to the Danish royal family famously declared that he felt like a son of the house of Glücksborg. Needless to say, the statement created some unease.
In the longer perspective, Wilhelm’s bad political judgement led to Imperial Germany losing World War I and the reunification of Northern Schleswig with Denmark, so maybe we still owe him a greeting in a warped way.
Aynway: Today is Wilhelm’s 150th birthday and it is accordingly not being celebrated in Germany. German-readers and -listeners may still enjoy two critical appraisals of the life and disastrous career of Wilhelm II published by DeutschlandRadio:
Kein Gedenken an Wilhelm II and Bejubelt und weggejagt.
Süddeutsche Zeitung also has a couple of articles: An interview with John Röhl, author of a massive biography of WII, and another critical appraisal.
Bonus question: Which political leader of the 2000s does this remind you of – “he was not a man of deeds, he loved the show”? (Here’s my immediate association)
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