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...anymore, especially not when I’m putting together stuff for a show. 2. FM: If you could sum up your impression of Harvard in five words or less, what would it be?EM: Total party zone.3. FM: Do you have a favorite venue?EM: This place in Fribourg, Switzerland a couple years ago was pretty incredible. It was an old medieval fort—a huge stone building with massive wooden beams. It was just an incredible place to play, really stunning.4.FM: What advice would you give to any aspiring Harvard musicians?EM: I don?...
...matter, bypassing the courts and parliament. "If the government wanted to act on behalf of the U.S, it needed to maintain as much secrecy as possible in case those documents really were a threat to the security of the state," says Thomas Fleiner, director of the Federalism Institute at Fribourg University. "But such an evaluation should have been done by the court and not by the executive branch...
...most outspoken and controversial figure of the SVP, a populist rural party that has morphed into a national force, was not a team player. Throughout his regime he often acted in an "authoritarian way," says Thomas Fleiner, professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Federalism Institute in Fribourg, even going as far as trying to "exclude members of his own party from various committees because they had not followed the party's official line...
Vasella came late to the business world but was introduced early to illness and adversity. Born in 1953 in Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a history professor and the youngest of four children in a Catholic household, Vasella developed asthma at 5, then fell ill with tuberculosis and meningitis at 8, each time spending a year away from home in recovery. He was 10 when his eldest sister died of cancer; three years later, his father died from complications after surgery. But the accidental death in 1982 of his second sister, who had attended medical school with him, was most...
...athletes at the same point of, say, a ski race so TV commentators could easily explain and viewers could easily see the differences. Jean-Marie quit his job and took Bergonzoli, a colleague, with him. In 1998 the pair launched Dartfish in an old chocolate factory in Fribourg, a 900-year-old city east of Geneva. Dartfish's technology gained notice when NBC used it on skiing telecasts during the 2002 Winter Olympics. The company also sold StroMotion to TNT, which has shown NBA players gliding through the air like ghosts...