Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong for us to begrudge Mr. Ames his Swiss bank accounts and Arlington digs? Should we instead pin a medal on his chest and send him on his way? Certainly...
...unexpected U.S. triumphs left Austrian and Swiss favorites floundering in the powder. The two powerhouse Alpine nations, where World Cup races are routinely televised and schuss stars are celebrities, had dominated Olympic skiing for decades. Yet last week a Norwegian (the dynamic Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and a Canadian (the surprising Ed Podivinsky) won silver and bronze medals in downhill after Moe, while a Russian, Svetlana Gladischeva, edged Italian Isolde Kostner for silver in the women's super-G. In the men's super- G, Markus Wasmeier, a Bavarian who likes to play Mozart on his zither, won the gold, beating...
...degree F -- seemed only to stimulate flag-waving, cowbell-clanking Norwegians. Before the race they bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...
...example, Green said a Swiss donor with no Harvard ties donated $20 million for a center for health and humanrights last spring...
...visionary Swiss architect Le Corbusier once drew up a plan to modernize Paris that called for razing most of the central city and replacing the old structures with eighteen 60-story towers. His idea, says historian Robert Fishman of Rutgers University, was that "cities were completely out of touch with the modern world and modern technology and what they needed was shock therapy, or what he called 'urban surgery,' in order to make a complete break with the past." Fortunately, Paris survived Le Corbusier. But the idea might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could...