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Geneva learns to love Rousseau

This content was published on May 19, 2006 No wonder the Calvinist city fathers regarded Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a dangerous and destabilising influence. “We know of Rousseau from childhood. We sing the melodies he wrote,” says Jean Starobinsky, Emeritus Professor at Geneva University and probably the leading authority on the author of the “Social Contract”. Rousseau is rightly seen as one of Geneva’s…

A colour image from a painting of the house on the lake

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Creating Frankenstein, the Lake Geneva monster

This content was published on May 19, 2006 The idea for what is often called the first science fiction novel was born on the shores of Lake Geneva, in the "year without a summer".

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Swiss sanctuary of a very fair lady

This content was published on May 19, 2006 In Switzerland she found the peace she sought in order to raise her two sons away from the glare of the Hollywood paparazzi. Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston was born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium. She was the only daughter of an Anglo-Irish banker and a Dutch aristocrat. Her father, to whom she was very…

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Universities face public examination

This content was published on May 19, 2006 Swiss voters are due to decide on Sunday on a package of education reforms, including changes to the way universities are run. Over the past 12 months separate investigations have been launched into suspected financial irregularities at four of the country’s leading academic institutions. Ahead of the vote, Charles Kleiber, state secretary for education and…

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Cybercrime continues to rise

This content was published on May 18, 2006 The Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control (Cyco) said on Thursday that child pornography was of particular concern last year. Cyco received 7,345 notifications of possible internet abuse in 2005, around 100 more per month than in previous years. In 2003 and 2004, the unit mostly received complaints about spam. But last year, users were concerned…

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Entire staff at Pakistan embassy replaced

This content was published on May 18, 2006 A foreign ministry report on Thursday said the mission was targeted by organised crime in Pakistan. “However, the investigation produced no evidence that Swiss embassy staff were guilty of criminal acts.” The report said the foreign minister had decided that all embassy staff, including the ambassador, should be replaced. In addition, three disciplinary investigations are…

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The Great Pyramid of Jura

This content was published on May 18, 2006 For the duo, already famous for their modernist buildings such as the Tate Modern in London or the Olympics stadium in Beijing, it is their first project in western Switzerland. The plan is to build the huge triangular auditorium in the middle of the northwestern Jura countryside, near the village of Courgenay. It will hold…

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Shostakovich. Festival Strings Lucerne. Achim Fiedler, cond.

This content was published on May 18, 2006

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Solojodlerin Margrit Spichtig-Hofer. Im Bruederchlause-Dorf.

This content was published on May 17, 2006

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The Great Pyramid of Jura

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