Word: zurich
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Tell that to the survivors: Most Jewish groups claim Holocaust victims own a total of $7 billion in assets and interest sitting untouched in Zurich vaults. "My 31,000 clients will not stand for this," said claimant lawyer Edward Fagan. Until now, Fagan believed a $1 billion deal was in the works -- and even that wouldn't have satisfied his clients...
...Nora and then their two children moved among and around European cities--Pola, Trieste, Zurich, Rome, Paris--Joyce found clerical and teaching jobs that provided subsistence to his family and his writing. His first published book of fiction, Dubliners (1914), contained 15 stories short on conventional plots but long on evocative atmosphere and language. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) provided a remarkably objective and linguistically complex account of Stephen Dedalus, i.e. James Joyce, from his birth to his decision to leave Dublin in pursuit...
Meili was a 28-year-old night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich when, in January 1997, he happened upon the ledgers next to the shredding machine. His disclosure that Switzerland's largest bank was destroying Nazi-era records, even as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts, turned the taciturn Protestant into an international celebrity--and a local pariah. The Zurich district attorney pressed charges against him--later dropped--for violating bank-secrecy laws. He was fired from his job and inundated with death threats and anti-Semitic hate mail...
...video camera, Italian microanalyst Giovanni Riggi cut a 1/2-in. by 3-in. strip of linen from the shroud, well away from its central image and any charred or patched areas. He divided the strip into three postage stamp-size samples and distributed them to representatives of laboratories in Zurich, Oxford and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Each then performed at least three radiocarbon measurements on its sample...
...worries about her privacy [CLINTON'S CRISIS, March 2]. She did not seem to care much about the privacy of others. About privacy in general: When will Americans learn and accept that each person--even the President of the U.S.--has a right to privacy? ROSEMARIE SILVIA VOLKLE Zurich...