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A Drug Free Land

This content was published on Jul 22, 2010 Swiss photographer Thomas Kern shows us a seemingly forlorn America off the beaten path.

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Federer earnings beaten only by Tiger Woods

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 Woods claimed the top spot on a US list of 50 athletes for the seventh consecutive year, though his total earnings fell ten per cent to $90.5 million (SFr95 million), according to Sports Illustrated’s SI.com on Wednesday. Swiss tennis star Roger Federer topped the international list with $61.8 million, bumping English football player David Beckham…

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Robert Schumann Piano Works: Abegg Variations, Davidsbündlertänze, Arabesque, Geistervariationen & Gesänge der Frühe. Oliver Schnyder, piano

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 Schumann: Gesänge in der Frühe (V) Oliver Schnyder

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Anne Frank “revisionist” fined

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 In June 2009 the 22-year-old ex-leader of the Basel branch of the extremist party had written an article called “The lies around Anne Frank”, in which he branded the diary of the young Jewish girl a “historical lie”. The young man has been fined for racial discrimination. He referred to an article published in 1980…

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Darfur rebel group signs treaty in Geneva

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 Wednesday’s agreement in Geneva makes provision for total access to the rebel zones. “We signed this agreement to ensure our children may have a safe future, to preserve them from the dangers of war, bombings, looting, while a political resolution of the conflict is blocked,” said Souleymane Mahamat Djamous from the Movement for Justice and…

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A simple life on the Loveignoz pasture

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 On the opposite side of the valley, Lise es-Borrat is up early, preparing lunch for hungry hikers who may stop off at her mountain cafe, situated at 2,151m on the Loveignoz pasture, a good four-hour walk from the nearby village of Mase. A gentle clanging draws near as Laurent, her young cowhand from Les Diablerets,…

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Starving pot dealer ends hunger strike

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 Bernard Rappaz, who has been jailed on drug charges before, was sentenced in 2008 by the Valais cantonal court to five years and eight months in jail for having 51 tons of hemp. He began his sentence in March 2010 and launched a hunger strike shortly after. Rappaz called his sentence an “unjust and colossal…

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Kafkaesque legal dispute leads to Zurich

This content was published on Jul 21, 2010 A Tel Aviv court ordered the opening on Monday of four Zurich safe-deposit boxes allegedly containing hand-written and unpublished documents as part of a trial to sort out who owns the author’s literary estate. Kafka, who died in Vienna in 1924, is one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century, with works such…

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Mr. Corelli in London. Recorder Concertos. Maurice Steger

This content was published on Jul 20, 2010 Conc. per flauto no.10. V. Gavotta. Allegro. Maurice Steger, flute

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Robert Schumann Piano Works: Abegg Variations, Davidsbündlertänze, Arabesque, Geistervariationen & Gesänge der Frühe. Oliver Schnyder, piano

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Anne Frank “revisionist” fined

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