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Swiss win friendly after Frei named captain

This content was published on Mar 22, 2007 Thursday’s win during a training camp in Florida ended a string of defeats for the Swiss team. Marco Streller and Gökhan Inler scored for the Swiss within the first 15 minutes of the game against a weak Jamaica. The Swiss had plenty of chances to improve the score during a strong first half but were…

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Parliament backs anti-terrorism accord with US

This content was published on Mar 22, 2007 The accord, which still has to go to the Senate, was passed on Thursday by 110 votes to 55 and is set to replace an Operative Working Agreement (OWA) in force since 2002. Centre-left parties in Switzerland have serious reservations about the deal on police cooperation. They insist Washington should apply international humanitarian law and…

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Lambiel lands bronze in Tokyo

This content was published on Mar 22, 2007 Brian Joubert of France won gold ahead of Japan’s Daisuke Takahashi. Lambiel, twice world champion and Olympic silver medallist, managed to improve on his sixth place after the short event on Wednesday. He did one quad in a combination on Thursday but nearly fell attempting a second in a flamenco-inspired routine to finish with 233.35,…

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Roche denies Tamiflu-related side effects

This content was published on Mar 22, 2007 The firm said there was no proven link between the drug and a number of reported cases of severe psychiatric symptoms. On Wednesday, the Japanese heath authorities said they had told importers of Tamiflu to warn doctors not to prescribe it to those aged ten to 19, after two new reports of young people injuring…

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Chopin piano find is music to owner’s ears

This content was published on Mar 21, 2007 For more than 150 years after the composer’s death, Chopin’s piano vanished until Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger researched the ledgers of French piano maker Camille Pleyel. “It came as a bolt from the blue,” said British collector Alec Cobbe after discovering that the piano he bought 20 years ago for £2,000 (SFr 4,764) is a piece of…

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President issues anti-racism appeal

This content was published on Mar 21, 2007 Calmy-Rey made her comments to mark Wednesday’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. “Let’s be honest: we cannot easily dismiss the existence of racism in our country,” this year’s president and foreign minister said in a statement. “People with a different skin colour are [sometimes] vilified and regarded as hostile,” Calmy-Rey added. “This…

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Globalized

This content was published on Mar 20, 2007 Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte is well known in Switzerland and the United States. His critical, humorous cartoons are published in Swiss papers Le Temps and the NZZ am Sonntag, as well as in the International Herald Tribune. Globalized: Cartoons from The International Herald Tribune 2005-2007 is a collection of his best work published in the paper…

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Shostakovich: Piano quintet. String quartet no. 12. Bruno Canino, piano. Amati Quartett Zürich.

This content was published on Mar 20, 2007

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Experimental Alphorn

This content was published on Mar 20, 2007 What has been happening in art after World War II – the breaking with traditional forms – should have paved the way for experiences in music, too. Composers started to make use of electrophonic instruments, but already in the 1980s employed them only rarely. In the meantime the folk movement, which had reached Switzerland after…

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