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...voting public? There's a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just plain pathetic. Final odds: 100-1 Switzerland: six4one If We All Give a Little. Céline Dion won the 1988 Eurovision for the Alpine nation, even though she's French-Canadian, starting a trend of Swiss outsourcing. Last year's Swiss representatives Vanilla Ninja were all from Estonia, and the country's 2006 multinational entry six4one has just one native performer. Luckily, the pop group won't be required to sing Switzerland's national anthem. Final odds: 28-1 Serbia and Montenegro No entry Even...
...president, Iran's rulers appear inclined to echo the call for direct talks, having reportedly made a number of discreet approaches and also public statements expressing a willingness to negotiate. Senior former State Department and NSC officials have indicated that Tehran sought, in a message relayed via Swiss diplomats, to initiate talks on all matters of concern to Washington, with the blessing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in mid-2003, but were rebuffed by Bush Administration hawks. Iranian leaders also reportedly made a similar call for secret negotiations on all matters of concern when Iraq's President Jalal Talabani...
...team," says Burricks. "I didn't expect myself to come this far." In the rarefied world of the America's Cup, genuine underdogs don't come along very often. Only once has the Cup ever been won by a first-time challenger. That happened in 2003, when the Swiss Team Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand in Auckland, bringing the cup to Europe for the first time since a U.S. boat won the Auld Mug, in a race off the Isle of Wight back in 1851. Africa's yachting tradition is limited, to put it kindly. Though sailors in eastern...
...separate from group-sponsored parties. Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, who threw “The Takeover,” a popular party in New Haven over Harvard-Yale weekend, has organized “The Lockdown,” a party at Hoffa’s Swiss Alps bar on 114 Mt. Auburn Street. “The Lockdown” has explicitly billed itself as a party for prefrosh, although the poster stresses that one must be “18 to dance, 21 to stumble.” Owusu-Kesse said he is determined...
...GENEVA Swiss resident Alain Vuarnet, son of Olympic skier Jean Vuarnet, could vouch for the brand's popular Skilynx mineral lenses...