Word: swiss
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...hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet, Helsingius' computer-and the service it provides-is a glorious haven. Known technically as an anonymous remailer, it is the network equivalent of a Swiss bank: a conduit by which users can ship data around the world in complete anonymity. Dozens of anonymous remailers have sprouted up in recent years-many of them in Scandinavia -but none is as popular or as trusted as Helsingius' service, known as Penet. For the past three years, networkers around the world have used his node on the Internet as a transfer point for the most...
That's just amazing. Minimizing turnovers is one thing, but putting the ball a Swiss bank account is another...
...windfall for Bruce Jordan and Marilyn Abrams, who created the phenomenon. In 1976 Jordan was performing in a Rochester, New York, production of Scherenschnitt (Cutouts, roughly), a psychological study by the Swiss playwright Paul Portner; and two years later, Jordan and Abrams were doing the play in Lake George, New York, "To us," says Abrams, "it cried out to be a comedy." The pair bought the rights (for $50,000) and set to funnying it up. They opened the play in Boston to mixed reviews and a flat box office. "We knew the audience was having a delicious time," Jordan...
Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...
...Tombamaniacs went nuts--further nuts, that is. The din of their air horns sounded like a Swiss national-emergency call. At least half a dozen fan clubs, most of them from the vicinity of their idol's native Bologna, follow him from race to race these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what...