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...caper, which, for all its superficial childishness, shines a rueful light on two related kinds of failure. In "Malvern Hills," a young man, with ambitions of becoming an indie singer-songwriter, spends a summer at his sister's café in the Malvern Hills and meets a middle-aged Swiss couple whose lives portend an unpromising future of blighted dreams...
...late April the Swiss ambassador to Tehran arrived in Washington with a secret message for the small team in charge of Barack Obama's outreach to Iran. The rulers in Tehran were getting ready to release the American journalist Roxana Saberi, who had been charged with spying. But they wanted the U.S. to know that if she was freed, it would not be a concession; it would be a test. For more than two years, U.S. forces in Iraq had been holding three Iranian diplomats they believed were members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, linked to terrorist attacks...
...meeting Wednesday in Rome with Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, that African poverty was "a big problem that requires a big decisive response from all those who are fortunate enough to be well-off." Berlusconi reportedly said he believed some African leaders had funneled aid funds to their personal Swiss bank accounts...
...Israeli checkpoints and roadblocks whose purpose seems humiliation as much as security; their lands are slit by highways that only settlers are allowed to use; the settlements, populated by the most extreme Israelis, have doubled in size since the 1993 Oslo accords, gradually turning the Palestinian areas into Swiss-cheese cantons...
...When the Swiss tennis star Roger Federer won the French Open on June 7, he tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles and become only the sixth player in history to win all four Grand Slam events (the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens). In the GOAT Debate - Greatest of All Time - Federer now has only one rival: Rod Laver, the Australian star who not only won all four Slams, but twice did so in a calendar year (in 1962 and 1969). Laver's total of 11 Grand Slam titles could have been higher...