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...found in close proximity to each other, particularly when the individual being described is a career diplomat. Thomas Borer, who is both these things and was until April his country's ambassador to Germany, thinks this is a problem. "If you're a diplomat of a small country like Switzerland, you have to work on bringing a new image across, on raising the country's profile," he says. "You can only do this through your own personality. You have to make people have an interest...
...producers say his audition tape was the best they'd ever seen MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop produces his third child. The infant has his father's eyes, nose, chin and years of plastic surgery to look forward to FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO President of economically troubled Brazil creates Switzerland-sized national park, invites Swiss to move right in?and bring their banks Losers LI KA-SHING Hong Kong magnate loses controversial bid for a stake in TV station, says he only wanted to spare viewers more David Letterman reruns MICHAEL KOPPER Enron exec pleads guilty to money laundering and agrees...
Talk about turbulence. First Switzerland's air-traffic-control system was blamed for last month's collision between a Russian passenger jet and a cargo plane that killed 71 people. Now air pockets of labor disputes, technical difficulties and a conflict among pilots have hit Swiss, the country's newly renamed national airline. Still smarting from the bankruptcy last fall of their old flag carrier, Swissair, the Swiss hope the recent glitches do not signal another disaster...
...airline has at least one edge in the competitive market. "Switzerland's image and reputation sell well overseas," Garelli says. And the Swiss, who took the demise of Swissair as an affront to their national identity, have an emotional stake in the new carrier's success. "If we created an airline and called it Cuckoo Air, maybe we wouldn't care as much," Garelli says. "But we put our flag on its tail, so we have a collective responsibility to make sure it flies...
INVESTMENT Caught in a Bear Trap Swiss multimillionaire and bow-tied shareholder activist Martin Ebner, who has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of Switzerland's corporate establishment, sees himself as the Swiss equivalent to that patron saint of U.S. shareholders, investor Warren Buffett. Lately, though, Ebner has had a few setbacks. Last week he was forced to sell controlling stakes in four key investment funds. BZ Group, Ebner's holding company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always...