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...Many people got fed up with Blocher's aggressive and combative manner," says Georg Lutz, a political scientist at Bern University. "When you are part of a coalition government you should try to find common ground with the others. But he just pursued his own agenda and polarized the whole country...
After marrying his high school sweetheart in 1978 and completing medical school and a string of residencies, Vasella started as an attending physician at a university hospital in Bern in 1984. Though he loved working closely with patients, it bothered him that he knew little about business, especially because he had begun to invest modestly in stocks. Four years of psychoanalysis, Vasella says, helped free him "from the rules and obligations one imposes on oneself" and give him the courage to leap into a new career. In 1987 he sought the advice of Max Link, the well-connected and accessible...
...pasted thousands of posters across the country depicting three white sheep kicking out one black sheep from a paddock, with the slogan: "For more security." The poster became the parade example for furious accusations that the SVP was fomenting racism. Early this month, at a demonstration in the capital, Bern, hundreds of protesters pelted SVP members with rocks; police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd...
...that time his name was everywhere else. Today he employs about 180 people at his studio in New York City, a branch in Zurich and several small project offices around the world. His operations are global - condo towers in Singapore and Warsaw, a shopping mall in Bern, a performing-arts center in Dublin. Or almost global. At a time when architects are flocking to China, Libeskind, who grew up under communism in Poland, refuses to accept commissions from Beijing...
...DIED. Marc Hodler, 87, courtly Swiss lawyer who rocked the insular International Olympic Committee in 1998 by telling reporters that I.O.C. members had solicited bribes from cities vying to host the Games-prompting sweeping reforms in the organization; in Bern, Switzerland. The I.O.C. elder statesman said he was motivated by his concern for the "honor of the Olympics...