Word: switzerland
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...racism. (Years later, it was repealed.) As President, the ex-general worked to broker rifts in coalition Cabinets, isolate some extremists and push for voting reforms. DIED. GERALD PIAGET, 79, style-conscious co-founder of the family watchmaking firm famed for its ultraslim, ultraexpensive timepieces for women; in Areuse, Switzerland...
...quiet and meticulous self-extinction, a small cottage in the French Canadian village of St.-Casimir exploded into flames. Inside the burning house were five people, all disciples of the Order of the Solar Temple. Since 1994, 74 members of that group have gone to their death in Canada, Switzerland and France. In St.-Casimir the dead were Didier Queze, 39, a baker, his wife Chantale Goupillot, 41, her mother and two others of the faithful. At the last minute the Queze children, teenagers named Tom, Fanie and Julien, opted out. After taking sedatives offered by the adults, they closeted...
...concentrate on spiritually orphaned, Internet-lonely California is to miss the point, when mass suicides confront us in Canada, in South Korea, even in placid Switzerland. And to focus too much on the millenarian climate is to ignore the fact that even in Shakespeare, comets mark "change of times and states" (as he writes in the first sentence of Henry VI, Part 1). When prodigies break out in the fourth act of a Shakespearean tragedy, it is a sign that the time is out of joint: some fundamental link between man and his environment, as intrinsic as the link between...
...working on a neutrino experiment at Harvard and in a high energy physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland, said that he is also sticking with physics in graduate school...
DIED. CARLO FASSI, 67, coach who guided Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, John Curry and Robin Cousins to Olympic gold medals; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was accompanying his current skaters, including American Nicole Bobek, at the World Figure Skating Championships...