Cluster: Swiss Identity

Mnouchkine delights festival audience with new acting method

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 In her 35-year career as one of the world’s most innovative theatre producers and directors, Ariane Mnouchkine has often worked with modern texts that are nonetheless faithful to the classic genre of the tragedy. In “Tambours sur la Digue” (Drummers on the Dyke) her Paris-based Théatre du Soleil stages a text by Hélène Cisoux, a…

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Swiss authorities voice concern over new party drug

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 Since the start of this year, tens of thousands of Thai pills – so-called because they are manufactured in Thailand – have been discovered in Switzerland; far more than in any other country in Europe. In March, police in canton Berne seized 44,000 pills in one raid alone. “We are seeing more and more of…

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Organised crime still public enemy number one, says Federal Prosecutor

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 In an interview with the German-language newspaper “Der Bund” on Saturday, Rorschacher said that highly qualified people committed economic crime, such as money laundering. Such crime was very difficult to track, he said, and called for an increase in the number of specialist investigators. Despite recognising that the rising trend of right-wing violence was worrying,…

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Organised crime still public enemy number one, says Federal Prosecutor

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 In an interview with the German-language newspaper “Der Bund”, Roschacher said that highly qualified people committed economic crime, such as money laundering. Such crime was very difficult to track, he said, and called for an increase in the number of specialist investigators. Despite recognising that the rising trend of right-wing violence was worrying, the Federal…

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Festival turns Engadine into scenic stage for the arts

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 The event aims to bring art and culture out of the concert hall, art gallery and theatre, and into the natural beauty of Graubünden’s picturesque valleys and villages. Its organisers describe the event as one “immersed in a festival of sensuous impressions (in which one) walks through larch woods and concert halls, through meadows and…

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New team takes the helm at New York’s Swiss Institute

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 The art historian Mary Rozell will head the institute. Rozell’s career has already taken her to Germany, where, amongst other roles, she was head of the International Studio Programme in European Art in Weimar. Her deputy, and incoming head of art at the institute, will be Marc-Olivier Wahler, who is currently in charge of the…

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Two Swiss men handed 12 year sentence in Guatemala drug trial

This content was published on Aug 26, 2000 On Friday, the public prosecutor sought to have Silvio Giovanoli and Nicolas Hänggi jailed for 20 years, and fined SFr800,000, the same penalty decided at a first trial two years ago. Judges in Puerto Barrios, however, chose to hand them a sentence of just over half the number of years requested, and to fine them…

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Bucher outruns Kipketer, but fails to win Brussels 800m

This content was published on Aug 25, 2000 The man who took victory in the much-anticipated race was Algeria’s Djabir Said-Guerni. His time of 1″43.25 couldn’t be matched by Bucher. Lucerne’s world-class athlete finished the race sixth hundredths of a second behind Said-Guerni in 1″43.31, while Denmark’s World Champion, Kipketer, wrapped up his race virtually neck-and-neck with Bucher, just four hundredths of a…

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Swiss take up Vuelta challenge

This content was published on Aug 25, 2000 The Vuelta this year sees 20 teams of nine athletes each competing in a slightly modified version of the race. Each stage has been shortened to an average of 138 kilometres a day, and a second rest-day has been introduced. Favourite to take the yellow jersey for a second year running is Germany’s Jan Ullrich.…

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Federal Court says no to lesbian couples’ residence rights

This content was published on Aug 25, 2000 The Swiss woman had met her partner in New Zealand, and had been granted residence there, but they wished to return together to live in Switzerland. The Swiss woman had been unable to find work as a German teacher, her normal profession, and her mother was ill. But while the New Zealander was able to…

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New team takes the helm at New York’s Swiss Institute

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