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...Switzerland, meanwhile, Rich has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the economy through taxes and donations. "His donations are strategically focused," says Josef Lang, a Swiss historian and government official in Zug. "He knows exactly what segment of the population to attract: concerts and museums for educated, high-income people, the hockey club for 'popular' appeal." All the while, Switzerland refused to hand Rich over to the U.S. Says Hans Bachmann, the mayor of Meggen, where Rich lives: "He has not demanded any special treatment from local authorities, and we in turn do not talk about...
...ricocheted through academia as scientists responded to charges of fraudulent research, intellectual vendettas, sexual misbehavior and unethical experimentation that has spread disease and death through the Yanomami. "This nightmarish story [is] a real anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad (though not, perhaps, a Josef Mengele)," warned two professors, Cornell University's Terence Turner and the University of Hawaii's Leslie Sponsel, in a memorandum to the American Anthropological Association...
...concern is that too many companies are being hurled too quickly into the same markets. For instance, at least a dozen optical-switch makers have been launched in the past six months. (Remember the dozen pet-supply e-commerce companies that were started last year?) That doesn't faze Josef Straus, CEO of JDS Uniphase: "Last Supercom [an industry trade show], there were 40 new start-ups in networking. Why did they get funded? Because they had a good business proposition in a great space. To the horizon I can see--four or five years--it's smooth sailing...
Germany is in mourning. Flags are flying at half-mast. "Germany is shaken, Germany is stunned," said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at an ecumenical service held at the World Expo in Hanover. "Our respect goes to the dead, our sympathy to the relatives." The bishop of Hildesheim, Josef Homeyer, who co-conducted the service, said, "Our hearts are heavy. The shock of the sudden might of death oppresses us. We lack words of consolation...
...While Josef Joffe was technically correct to say in his essay about coffee drinking [ESSAY, Dec. 6] that "there isn't a Starbucks in sight on Tiananmen Square," there are some just a short walk away. In fact, there are several, where you can enjoy a latte or sip a double-tall mocha. Beijing is transforming itself into a modern metropolis with Starbucks full of Chinese and expats getting their Java jolt. When it comes to coffee bars, Beijing is no latte lightweight. CHRISTOPHER OXLEY Beijing