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...balmy afternoon last month, French artist Pierre Huyghe stood in front of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with the building’s designer, the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier. Double parked along Quincy Street sat a limousine and out of a nearby truck spilled props and other movie-making equipment. A militia of gaffers, grips, special effects technicians and camera operators matted down Harvard’s primly manicured grass as they scurried around, barking into walkie-talkies and cell-phones. It was a scene more fitting for the back lot of a Hollywood studio than...
...Swiss-born entrepreneur has given $25 million to the Ph.D. program at Harvard Business School (HBS), marking the largest single donation toward business doctoral education ever...
DIED. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist whose incisive research in the 1960s demolished medical taboos against discussing death with the dying and helped establish hospice care in the U.S.; in Scottsdale, Ariz. (See Appreciation...
...prosecuting team also has the Swiss-born Del Ponte, who is one tough lawyer. The Cosa Nostra mobsters whom Del Ponte, as Switzerland's attorney general, pursued on money-laundering charges tried to blow her up; the banker gnomes in Zurich whose secrecy she penetrated trembled before her. No matter what stunts Milosevic pulls, says Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, "she is not going to be sidetracked or tripped...
...Robert Frank has a healthy attitude about how manipulative photography can be. In an interview in 1975 he said: "Photographs leave too much open to bullshit." Nevertheless, he has spent most of his life trying to produce honest images. The Swiss-born photographer and film-maker who has lived in the United States and Canada for the past half century is now 76, an age which has critics pontificating on his long career. Most agree that Frank was one of the biggest influences on photography and cinema in the 20th century, often referring back to the label Jack Kerouac first...