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American schools took seven of the top 10 slots in the results, published in last Friday’s issue of The Times Higher Education Supplement. The three other schools in the top 10 were Oxford, at fifth, Cambridge at sixth, and ETH Zurich in Switzerland at tenth. The top 20 included schools from Australia, China, Japan and Singapore. There were a total of 29 countries represented in the 200 universities ranked...
...idea for a road map to peace in Africa - sustainable management of natural resources. People like Maathai need to be among the decision makers who set policy for the African Union. Her new approach to peace is one the African continent badly needs. David Mbai Mboe Neuchâtel, Switzerland Candid Comparisons While tens of thousands of Darfurians are being systematically raped, murdered, tortured, starved and driven from their homes [Oct. 4], the world community can only stand by, arguing about the correct technical term to use to describe the situation and appointing commissions to "investigate" this atrocity...
Moritz C. Hafner ’08, a student from Switzerland, said the excitement reminded him of France’s soccer World Cup victory in 1998. Hafner, who said he did not know of the Red Sox until coming to Cambridge, rode the T to the parade wearing...
AFFIRMED. A gold medal for PAUL HAMM, 22, U.S. gymnast; by a sports tribunal; in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a case brought by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal from the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to win him the gold...
...writing a key paper that urged a U.S. economic and military buildup to "frustrate the Kremlin design of a world dominated by its will." Yet this early cold warrior became better known for his later efforts at conciliation, most notably a famous "walk in the woods" near Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982 with his Soviet counterpart in an attempt to break an arms-control deadlock. The agreement they reached failed to win approval, but his efforts paved the way for an arms deal between the U.S. and the Soviets in 1987. Though regarded as a godfather of the neoconservative movement, Nitze...