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...headed the task force that handled claims arising from Swiss banks' dealings with Nazi Germany during World War II. He prides himself on his "tough but fair" negotiating stance that won him the support of his countrymen for "standing up for Switzerland" as well as the commendation of several Jewish organizations...
...Charlotte Meyer, 49, an emergency-room nurse, didn't set out to cross the color line to become parents, but they didn't hesitate to do so when given the opportunity to adopt Aaron, now 11. Daughter Hannah, 7, followed. Both children are African American, but Glotzer, who is Jewish and from New York City, and Meyer, a Catholic who grew up in Phoenix, Ariz., say their family deals with racial boundaries daily. Meyer had to take a class to learn how to braid and care for her daughter's hair properly, and Glotzer sits on the board of PACT...
...name of an orchestra dreamt up after the chance meeting in a London hotel of an unlikely couple, Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and U.S.-based Palestinian writer and critic Edward Said. The players are equally unlikely: 78 musicians aged 13 to 26, roughly half of them Jewish, half from Arab countries. Last week, as the West-Eastern Divan rehearsed in a former Catholic seminary outside this southern Spanish city, Barenboim explained the motivation he and Said share: "That there is no military solution in the Middle East, either strategically or morally." He doesn't pretend that his young...
...than a century. But as the waters receded at week's end, the city could claim a major victory. Thanks to a hastily built, 2-km-long floodwall, the historic Old Town - home to such treasures as the Old Town Square, the 15th century Astronomical Clock and the famous Jewish quarter - was largely spared. Other parts of Europe were not so lucky, as torrential downpours sent floodwaters raging from the Baltic to the Black Sea, killing at least 100 people and causing billions of dollars' worth of damage to buildings, infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake...
...cigarette boycott may be questionable - like many other "American" goods on the boycott list, the Marlboros on sale in Egypt are actually produced here - but it does provide an emotional outlet for anger against America, whose unconditional support for Israel, people believe, enables what they see as the Jewish state's ongoing assault on Palestinian society. The guilty Marlboro-smoker must typically have prepared some defense, as my friend Amr did last week: "I just came back from Ramallah, and I'll have you know, it makes no difference on the ground what you smoke...