Reykjavík Grapevine - 27.07.2007, Blaðsíða 29

It spawned tremendous
racketeering, people
started selling and renting
out their quota for a great
profit, everything went
haywire. This was all done
to please hard-line liber-
tarians, and those are no
better than hard-line com-
munists in my book.
Retired fishing captain Halldór Hermanns-
son on the quota system.
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Boiled down to its essence,
our coverage concerned a
particular individual who
had ties to a politician.
That individual was grant-
ed citizenship on grounds
that were completely un-
precedented, and after
only a short stay in the
country.
RÚV reporter Helgi Seljan talks about the
recent verdict of the Journalistic Ethic
Committee.
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I lift the fish up but it im-
mediately flops out of my
hands and begins to wrig-
gle on the floor. I had un-
derestimated the animal’s
40-pound girth. Again I
pick it up, but it thrashes
itself out of my slippery
gloves. The seagulls wait.
The pulley roars again.
Chandler Frederick tries to gut his first Cod
during his one-day job with the sailors.
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I’m always surprised.
Sometimes I show up and
I play for two people and a
dog. That happens too.
Swedish musician Jens Lekman tells Val-
gerður Þóroddsdóttir about his successful
music career.
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