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...alternative proposal. While unwilling to pass on bank account details, Switzerland would be prepared to levy a withholding tax on the bank accounts of E.U. residents. This would safeguard client privacy, but still provide European treasuries with tax revenue. "We think it?s a most unique offer," says Gregor Kündig, an executive member of the national industry federation Economiesuisse who deals with E.U. issues. "It has never happened in history that we collected taxes for other states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silence Is Golden | 9/8/2002 | See Source »

GERMANY Frequent Flyer Chancellor Gerhard Schröder got a gift from an unlikely quarter - the resignation of Gregor Gysi, leader of the Party for Democratic Socialism, the old East German communists. Gysi quit as both party leader and economics minister of Berlin over a scandal about his use of air miles - totted up on official business - for personal trips. The charismatic Gysi was the most prominent PDS figure and the one most popular among people in western Germany and young voters. His resignation could be a lifeline for Schr?der's re-election hopes. If the pds fails to gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...Pforzheimer: Kelly M. Doran, Alexander M. Gelber, John A. Higgins, Eva C. Holtz, Bryan T. Kim, William K. Josephson, Gregor Matvos and Andrew Park...

Author: By Katherine M. Dimengo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Members Named, Continuing 212-Year-Old Tradition of Recognition | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...most popular single-country pavilions remained the German pavilion, a house reconstructed by Gregor Schneider that caused either great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burning Up: Art Sizzles at the Biennale | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

Once upon a time, it seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me A New Story | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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