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...award is intended to reward research carried out in fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes. The other prize winners are University of Chicago sociologist Edward Shils and an Italian scholar in Oriental Studies, Francesio Gabreli. An awards ceremony is scheduled for February in Switzerland...
...Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, issued a fresh set of conditions for the talks, including a complete halt to cease-fire violations and a lifting of the nightly curfew in Beirut. Jumblatt himself hinted that the talks might break up over a dispute as picky as the seating. Before leaving for Switzerland, Jumblatt and his fellow leaders in the antigovernment National Salvation Front met with Assad for six hours in Damascus to devise their strategy for the conference...
Vitale's family-owned concern, head quartered in a two-story stucco factory in Turin, was founded in 1916 as a manufacturer of men's socks. His parents fled to Switzerland in 1943 to escape Fascist antiSemitism, but returned to Turin after World War II to rebuild their shattered plant. When Vitale left school to join the company full time in the late 1960s, he immediately set out to diversify it. "In this world," he says, "it's very important to understand things 15 minutes before somebody else...
...days later he told them he would be staying later than he had planned because he had missed his plane to Europe, where he purportedly planned to meet his mother to go shopping in Rome and skiing in Switzerland. Slack said...
Marianne Ridge Kusnacht, Switzerland...