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...recent Swiss referendum on the building of minarets, spires used to call Muslims to prayer, is a perfect example of how Islamophobia extends beyond a vocal minority. Recently, 57 percent of Switzerland??s population voted to ban the construction of future minarets in their country. This response seems excessive because there are currently four minarets in Switzerland and roughly five percent of the population follows Islam. The danger of the Alps’ chocolate-box villages being swept away in favor of numerous variants of the Blue Mosque looks slim. A comment by Roberto Calderoli of Italy?...
...dusting of snow / fastens to roofs / on a row of Delft houses.” In the first poem, “Ornament,” Nilsson informs her interlocutor that “Your heart is as large as an anthill in Switzerland??—presumably, the heart in question is non-existent. Elsewhere, the poet takes us to Lapland, treads on Persian rugs, compares the heart to a “timber mansion on the Bosporus” and watches deer in Auvers while musing about Cezanne’s apples—tall traveling...
...global warming, then you should get off your high Prius because the Swiss have put you to shame. Last April, the Swiss government advanced the Green Movement light-years beyond the realm of sound judgment by establishing protection for the dignity of plants. Yes, that’s right, Switzerland??a country run by adults—has granted the right of dignity to plants.The Monty-Pythonesque task of defining plants’ dignity was given, of course, to a twelve-person committee of scholars—the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH). The committee...
...like to call us Switzerland??it’s a neutral place, where two schools, who might have sort of different agendas but want to do something together [can come], and we can say, ‘This is the good thing, this is the right thing, you should do this,’ even if it seems against their self-interest,” said Kathleen M. Buckley, the associate provost for science...
...like to call us Switzerland??it’s a neutral place, where two schools, who might have sort of different agendas but want to do something together,” Buckley said in October about the collaboration...