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When talent outshines handicap

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 The atelier Creahm is tucked away behind the École de Cormanon in a suburb of Fribourg. Bright and spacious and rented for a song from the local parish, it is the workplace of 18 artists who spend one to three days a week there. It encloses a subtle disorder of easels, tables, paint pots and…

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Aloïse’s World

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 She produced hundreds of works in different shapes and sizes (individual drawings and paintings, notebooks, scrolls several metres in length). She used black lead, coloured pencils and wax crayons, and liked to cover the entire surface of both sides of whatever material she was using.

Raw exuberance

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 Raw exuberance

Choice of Golden Leopard raises eyebrows

This content was published on Aug 12, 2012 The third festival under Olivier Père drew mixed reviews, with not everyone won over by the programme on the Piazza Grande. Critics were puzzled not least by the handing of the Golden Leopard to 68-year-old Brisseau. “Although it’s interesting that the film was shot with amateur actors on a shoestring, I’m astonished that Locarno –…

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What medals mean for Swiss sports

This content was published on Aug 11, 2012 The national Olympic association had set a target of “five to seven medals. Now we have three. We still have medal candidates like our mountainbikers,” Christof Kaufmann told swissinfo.ch this week, challenging the use of the term “disappointing” to describe Switzerland’s performance before the Games end. But Swiss sporting organisations are apparently already worrying about…

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Check-in to a world of dullness and banality

This content was published on Aug 11, 2012 The US filmmaker John Waters had this to say about it: “Every time I look out of an airplane window in boredom, frustration and exhaustion, I see a mediocre still life, even duller, more stupid and less remarkable than Fischli/Weiss’s. And I’m convinced that I’ve glimpsed a new kind of 1990s beauty, over and above…

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Hospital vows to introduce stricter practice

This content was published on Aug 10, 2012 The German decision, which does not apply to Switzerland, prompted debate in several other Swiss hospitals and among legal experts. Hospital officials on Friday announced that in the future every male circumcision for religious purposes will be made on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the health of the boy. The hospital will also try…

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Archaeology gets a shot of science

This content was published on Aug 10, 2012 Travelling across Switzerland, especially in the summer months, it is not unusual to come across people working on an archaeological dig somewhere out in the country. But the digging, scraping and vacuuming are just one part of the job. Once a survey is complete, what does it tell us, and what is the story behind…

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Switzerland’s past faces an uncertain future

This content was published on Aug 10, 2012 Chevenez in canton Jura: it’s here that a well-known watchmaker is building a new factory on a tight schedule. It’s also here that the initial spadework revealed what could be a major archeological site. The local authorities had to scramble to save what they could find in a few short weeks, after the firm building…

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Flying the Swiss flag on the high seas

This content was published on Aug 10, 2012 The Swiss merchant fleet, whose home port is Basel but whose ships never sail within sight of Swiss soil, was founded in 1941 when, as the war escalated, finding new avenues to bring essential economic supplies into Switzerland was paramount. Today the fleet, which contributes just a fraction to Switzerland’s gross domestic product compared with…

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