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  • Sweden Blocks Idea to Name Baby Superman

    05/06/2003 1:20:46 PM PDT · by yonif · 70 replies · 1,844+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | Tue, May 06, 2003 | AP
    STOCKHOLM, Sweden - It's a bird. It's a plane, but it's not Superman. At least not in Sweden, where a couple who wanted to name their child after the comic book hero found the law harder to bend than the man of steel himself. The tax authority, which oversees rules for names in the Scandinavian country of 8.9 million, nixed a request by Sara Lindenger and her live-in boyfriend, Johan Leisten, both 28, to name their child Staalman, Superman in Swedish. "We wanted to call him David Rune Staalman Leisten," Lindenger told The Associated Press Tuesday. "It would be much...