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...Father is a great spiritual experience and an honor. And it's good for Switzerland's image too." It is an honor that the country's Catholics are vowing to maintain. "Recruitment has had its ups and downs but this tradition is as relevant today as ever," says Bishop Norbert Brunner, a liaison between the Swiss Catholic Church and the Vatican. "I hope that the day when there are no more willing candidates will never come." If Wyss and Segmüller have their way, fresh recruits will keep boosting the Guard's ranks. "I tell them this...
...pledged as collateral for loans. At a press conference last week, executives said that KirchMedia owed Hollywood studios $441 million for rights to films - the first time that debt was disclosed. "The only one with all the figures is Leo himself, who kept them all in his head," said Norbert Schneider, chairman of a German media institute...
Computer pioneer Norbert Wiener once advised, "Render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's." As the experiences of people like Stelarc, Brian Holgersen and Marie show, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference...
...Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring...
...Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring...