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...pedestrian streets and squares, with stalls selling everything from homegrown produce and flowers to exotic spices and food. The winding, cobblestone streets lead to the Cité, the Old Town dating to the Middle Ages. Perched on the hilltop is Lausanne's famed cathedral. Built in 1219, it is Switzerland's largest, with intricate stained-glass windows and Gothic artifacts. Every night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., one of Europe's last criers announces the hour, practically the only nighttime noise in this otherwise quiet city. Since this is the highest point in Lausanne, you can look down over...
...July. Just the same, says Cashen smoothly, "Our commitment is qualified. We are prepared to change certain of our regimes provided there is an international level playing field, but we're not going to proceed unless others do." Those others, he says, must include OECD members, particularly Switzerland and Luxembourg...
...turn NTV's spotlight off. The first news item was the return home from a Swiss jail of Pavel Borodin, the high-ranking Russian official who a few years ago found a Kremlin job for the then out-of-work Vladimir Putin. Borodin, who is being investigated in Switzerland on money-laundering charges, had been released on $3 million bail. The other main item was the assassination of the second-ranking member of the pro-Russian government in Chechnya, blown up while giving a TV interview in his home town. The attack once again demonstrated that Putin's confident promise...
...DIED. PEDRO DEPESTE, 55, violinist with the acclaimed Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club, after collapsing onstage during a concert; in Basel, Switzerland...
...will be possible in the Netherlands for doctors to inject lethal drugs into chronically ill people who want to die. No other nation has formally legalized euthanasia. And though mercy killings have not been criminally punished for years in the Netherlands and a few other places--Colombia and Switzerland among them--there's something creepy about how far the Dutch have gone with the law. When it takes effect in the fall, doctors will be able to euthanize sick children as young as 12, as long as the kids ask and Mom and Dad agree...