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...find outside Saturday Night Live. And this one is way outside. The Dave clone is Harald Schmidt, host of a German late-night talk show that runs four days a week on SAT 1, a channel seen not only in Germany but also in several other European countries from Switzerland to Slovakia. His references to the American talk-show host are sometimes obvious and self-conscious: in one recurring bit, a postman drops off letters and Schmidt greets him, "Oh, look, the letterman." More often he simply copies Letterman's style, from the slicing hand gestures to the comedy sketches...
...think I was raised the same way my parents were. I learned about America the beautiful, rather than Switzerland the neutral, England the weak or Puerto Rico the dependent. While my grandfather's years in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the American Air Force are still clear in his mind, his mother's tales of Puerto Rico have faded into memory...
...experience really peaked my interest in business and management, especially on an international level," says Brian T. Abrams '00, who attended last year's symposium in Switzerland. "I saw the challenges that exist with respect to differences in culture and how that affects business as well as the potential rewards...
...Where a big presentation might deal with wider, broader topics, the workshops dealt with more specialized topics in business and economics," says Abrams, who went to one workshop on turning around failing companies and another on venture capital in southeast Asia. Abrams also attended speeches by the presidents of Switzerland and Germany and ate dinner with the chief executive of Proctor and Gamble, Edwin Artze...
...about having an integrated, targeted plan of building our network of contacts," Kinczel says, explaining that by attracting American executives to the IMS in Switzerland, the ISC can collect sponsors who will pay for students to attend the event...