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...interviewed by his chief deputy at 8 a.m. Sunday morning-14 hours after the incident-at the ranch 21 miles south of Sarita, the county seat. Since Monday, the deputy, Gilberto San Miguel Jr., has also gotten statements from Cheney?s hunting partner Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, ranch owner Katharine Armstrong and her sister Sarita Armstrong Hixon, as well as two outriders helping with the hunt-Jerry and Oscar Medellin. Bo Hubert, the hunt guide, is to give his version of events to deputies on Friday. None of their affidavits will be released...
...After training in bright sunshine, the skiers were confronted by flat light and gusting winds. Dorfmeister won in one minute 56.49 seconds, 0.37 seconds clear of silver medalist Martina Schild of Switzerland. Anja Paerson of Sweden took the bronze...
...Rubens (26th) of Canmore, Alberta and Sherry Lawrence (27th) of Calgary. The winner was Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister who just weeks away from retirement capped a remarkable career with her first Olympic gold medal. Dorfmeister won in one minute 56.49 seconds, 0.37 seconds clear of silver medalist Martina Schild of Switzerland. Anja Paerson of Sweden took the bronze...
...class at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he served as president of the Law Review. He earned a doctorate in government in 1946 and entered the HLS faculty. As a professor, von Mehren specialized in international and comparative law and conflicts of law. He spent time in Switzerland, Germany, and Japan studying international legal systems, and facilitated an exchange program between Japanese and American professors in the 1950s. “I think what he really did was to open up the study of law after the second World War,” said son George M. von Mehren...
...Jungen is something of a cultural hybrid himself. His father, born in Switzerland, was 3 when he came to British Columbia with Jungen's grandparents, who had been enticed to Canada by government promises of farmable land. His mother was of native background, a member of the Dane-zaa Nation. "Interracial couples were very taboo," he says. "White guys could have native girls as girlfriends, but not wives." Jungen grew up on farms around Fort St. John, a once remote oil and logging center in northeastern British Columbia. He was 7 when his parents died in a fire...