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Snow and symphony in St Moritz

This content was published on Mar 7, 2002 The concept of the festival is simple and exclusive: letting top acts perform from the stages of the luxury hotels of St Moritz and the Upper Engadine Valley. This year’s nine-day event opens on March 15 at the legendary Palace hotel with a performance by the “Filarmonica Marchigiana” under the direction of Austrian conductor, Gustav…

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Cuche ends super-G drought

This content was published on Mar 7, 2002 The 27-year-old from Neuchatel finished Thursday’s race in Altenmarkt more than a third of a second ahead of Austria’s Fritz Strobl with Italy’s Alessandro Fattori a further 26 hundredths of a second behind. Cuche’s first ever win in the super-G discipline was also the first by any Swiss skier in just over ten years. The…

Schools must adapt to changing times

This content was published on Mar 7, 2002 They announced that five studies would take place this year to determine why Swiss schoolchildren’s reading and comprehension skills were behind those in other leading industrialised countries. Debate over literacy skills has been raging since an international study in December concluded that Swiss pupils were below average. The study, by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation…

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Wealthy Swiss soccer boss vanishes

This content was published on Mar 7, 2002 Helios Jermini, a wealthy real estate millionaire and financier, has not been seen since Tuesday. Police were alerted to his disappearance after the Ticino-based soccer boss failed to show up for a scheduled business meeting in the Italian city of Milan that evening. According to the “Corriere del Ticino” newspaper, Jermini set off alone for…

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League leaders left in the dark

This content was published on Mar 7, 2002 Engineers at St Gallen’s Espenmoos stadium were unable to get more than half of the floodlights working, leaving referree Carlo Bertolini with no choice but to abandon the match. “I was worried about the players’ safety as you could hardly see anything,” he said. The blackout could bring further depression to Basel’s nearest rivals, since…

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Kratochvil’s problems continue

This content was published on Mar 7, 2002 Kratochvil hasn’t won two matches in a row since the second week of the year and was unable to buck the trend in Arizona, going down in straight sets (3-6, 4-6) to Spain’s Juan Balcells. It was the first time in three encounters that the lower-ranked Balcells (ATP 123) had managed to get the better…

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Fashion in the snow

This content was published on Mar 6, 2002 VIP guests arriving at the embassy were greeted by a fresh carpet of snow for the launch of a British-Swiss events programme called “Dialogue Across Mountains – from Dialogue to Partnership”. Walls, doors and windows are iced over, the ambassador’s terrace garden turned into a designer snow park and flakes of freshly made snow floated…

Judge rejects Swissair Flight 111 claims

This content was published on Mar 6, 2002 The aircraft, which was on route from New York to Geneva, crashed into the sea killing all 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board. In two rulings, US district judge James Giles said 224 lawsuits filed in the aftermath of the disaster fell under the Death on the High Seas Act and the Warsaw…

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Borodin found guilty of money laundering

This content was published on Mar 6, 2002 A judge in Geneva handed down the fine on Tuesday after an anti-corruption investigation lasting more than two years. He found the ex-Kremlin aide guilty of receiving SFr38 million in kickbacks from two Swiss companies – Mabetex and Mercata – in exchange for lucrative contracts to renovate the Kremlin and the Russian presidential plane. Borodin’s…

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Swiss paralympians aiming high

This content was published on Mar 6, 2002 Eleven days after the close of the 19th Winter Olympics, the Rice-Eccles stadium is on Thursday set to stage the opening ceremony for the eighth Winter Paralympics. Some 1,200 athletes from 36 nations will be competing at the ten-day event, including 18 sportsmen and women from Switzerland. Eleven medal target Having seen Switzerland’s able-bodied stars…

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