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...terror will never end [WORLD, May 26], because waging war is the wrong way to fight terrorists. PETER SCHERER Zurich...
...audiences watching the documentary at the same time were not Jewish and Palestinian. The viewers - in Nazareth and Beirut, Lebanon's capital - were all Palestinian, members of a house divided against itself. Hassan's film, which screened last week in Cairo and will be shown this week in Zurich and Barcelona, explores the aftermath of fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian guerrillas in the Jenin refugee camp a year ago. It is particularly important to Hassan, who - despite the restrictions imposed on his movement in the Arab world by his Israeli citizenship - desperately wants his message to be heard throughout...
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." It never fails to puzzle society when someone claims to have solved it. On March 31, Britons Robert and Jennifer Stokes flew to Zurich to kill themselves with the help of professionals. The Stokes were in chronic discomfort - Jennifer, 53, suffered from diabetes and Robert, 59, was epileptic - and both reportedly were prone to depression. But neither was terminally ill, according to relatives. In Zurich, the Stokes were greeted by staff members from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal...
...model for the way a multitude of heirs can preserve a complex business, this ZURICH banking family pools its power (the stock is publicly traded) and then allocates duties with care...
...couple of years ago, the descendants of banker Julius Baer--more than 100 of them--gathered at a Zurich restaurant for a reunion of a remarkable family. Not only does it own a controlling stake in the 112-year-old Swiss bank Julius Baer Group, which manages about $80 billion in assets, but its members still run it too. In May, Thomas Baer, a grandson of Julius', will retire as chairman and hand the post to his nephew Raymond Baer...