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Paul Klee Centre takes root in Bern

This content was published on Jun 20, 2002 Due for completion before the end of 2004, the Paul Klee Centre will house more than 4,000 works, making it easily the world’s most important collection of paintings, drawing and sculptures by Klee, who was born near the Swiss capital and lived there for most of his life. He died in 1940. But when it…

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Kratochvil reaches Nottingham semi-final

This content was published on Jun 20, 2002 The Swiss number two swept aside his opponent 6-1, 6-3 in a confidence-boosting victory ahead of the Wimbledon Championships, which get under way next week. Kratochvil, who is comfortable playing on grass, will be hoping his form holds together into next week. He failed to make it past the first round at Wimbledon last year…

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Weyermann is out for the season

This content was published on Jun 20, 2002 However, the 24-year-old athlete from Bern said the decision did not mean the end of her career. “I love my sport above all and always feel the same motivation to train,” said the bronze medal winner from the 1997 World Championships in Athens. A season spoilt by physical problems would not stop her from “competing…

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Lüthi goes on show

This content was published on Jun 20, 2002 Lüthi, born 55 years ago in Kriens, in canton Lucerne, has spent his career searching for and questioning the nature of identity. The subject of his work and his principal material have often been himself. The exhibition “Urs Lüthi: Art is the Better Life 1970-2002”, which has just opened at Geneva’s Musée Rath, traces not…

Lembo leads Tour de Suisse

This content was published on Jun 19, 2002 The Oktos rider stands 49 seconds ahead of Switzerland’s Alex Zülle in the overall rankings, after completing the 1,712km route from the central Swiss town of Lucerne to Schaffhausen in the north of the country. Lembo’s time was 4 hours, 18 minutes, 36 seconds. Germany’s Sven Teutenberg came in just over a minute behind Lembo,…

Swiss architect scoops coveted French prize

This content was published on Jun 19, 2002 Basel-born Diener picked up his “Grande Médaille d’Or” on Tuesday at a ceremony in Paris. Diener’s portfolio includes many attention-grabbing projects around the globe. He is currently overseeing an extension of the Museum of Modern Art in Rome. The 52-year-old describes his work as “an ongoing study of towns and the relation between towns and…

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Swiss diplomat meets Palestinian leader in West Bank

This content was published on Jun 18, 2002 The visit to the Middle East by the head of the Swiss foreign ministry’s political affairs division, Blaise Godet, comes amid international condemnation of Tuesday’s suicide attack in southern Jerusalem, which also injured at least 50 people. During their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Arafat and Godet discussed issues relating to security…

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Swiss avoid Wimbledon big guns

This content was published on Jun 18, 2002 Switzerland’s tennis star, Roger Federer, is seeded seventh in the tournament and has been drawn against an as yet unknown player from the qualifying round. Michel Kratochvil will play Russia’s Nikolai Davidenko, while Marc Rosset has been drawn against the Argentinian player, José Acasuso. George Bastl, meanwhile, will have to fight it out in the…

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Winning start for Zülle

This content was published on Jun 18, 2002 The 33-year-old from St Gallen finished the 5.7km Lucerne course with the day’s fastest time of seven minutes and 37 seconds, more than five seconds ahead of second-placed Italian, Giuseppe Di Grande. “I’m happy to have rode well today but I don’t know what tomorrow will bring or the next three or four days,” Zülle…

Road to recovery?

This content was published on Jun 18, 2002 Starting off from Lucerne’s national transport museum and ending at the Expo.02 exhibition in Biel with visits to Europe’s largest waterfall and the fictional resting place of Sherlock Holmes along the way, the race’s 66th edition certainly has a touristic feel to it. But with 1,451 kilometres of tarmac to cover in ten gruelling days…

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