In the North Atlantic, a small people find themselves caught in the oldest of geopolitical predicaments: decisions about their future made in distant capitals, with the outcome shrouded in deliberate or careless silence. Greenland's residents, who had spent weeks bracing against American threats of outright seizure, now face a different and perhaps more insidious discomfort — an agreement that exists without explanation, a resolution that resolves nothing they can see or measure. The announcement of a deal between Washington and Copenhagen has not quieted the island's anxieties so much as tran