Word: gallen
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Nick Martin, for instance, who studies at the University of Gallen in Switzerland, attended The German School in Potomac, Md., a K-12 school taught mostly in German and intended for the children of diplomats and military personnel stationed in the D.C. area. Coming to Harvard has been easy, he says. “I feel like a lot of other undergraduates,” Martin says. “I can go to a sports bar and understand the concept of baseball. I probably won’t take away as much culturally but it’s much...
Down at street level, the view is less confident. "Banking secrecy is an old tradition in Switzerland, but in the end Switzerland will have to adapt itself to the E.U.," says Otto Boesch, a retiree from St. Gallen, checking his stocks on a big board outside the Bahnhofstrasse headquarters of UBS. Concurs Marc Weber, who works nearby in a bank he won?t name: "Switzerland can?t isolate itself. We can?t survive as a fortified island in today?s world. It?s just a question of time...
...ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE Directed by Joel Gallen With its gratuitous sex/shock/poop humor, Not Another Teen Movie may very well be a better sequel to last year’s Scary Movie than this past summer’s painfully unfunny Scary Movie 2. Essentially, NATM co-opts the patented Wayans Brother-approved method (a combination of smack-you-over-the-head pop-culture satire and gushing bodily fluids), but skewers teen movies of past and present rather than films that frighten...