FluBwege. (Fiction).
Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger FluBwege Zurich. Nagel & Kimche. 2000 190 pages. ISBN 3-312-00262-1 BEATRICE EICHMANN-LEUTENEGGER, a resident of Bern, is one of Switzerland's major literary critics and essayists. Ever since her inheritance of some of the unpublished works by the German-Jewish author Gertrud Kolmar almost thirty years ago,...

CYBERNET EXPANDS TO SWITZERLAND THROUGH ISP PURCHASE.
Cybernet Internet Services International, Inc, a US holding company with a European backbone and operating units in Germany, Austria and Italy, is expanding into Switzerland via the acquisition of a majority stake in Sunweb Internet Services SIS AG. The ISP, with joint headquarters in Zurich and Lausanne, currently has...

Switzerland.
In reality, the Swiss Section was born in 1915 and its first President, Clara Ragaz, acted as Swiss President from 1915 to 1946, but also was the International President of WILPF during the Second World War. The highest point of the membership was reached in 1934 with 14 local...

A celebration of Hermann Hesse.
The year 2002, when the 125th anniversary of his birth coincided with the 40th of his death, was the Hermann Hesse Year par excellence in Germany and Switzerland. The jubilee reminds an American observer of nothing so much as the Hesse cult among U.S. youth in the 1960s, for...

The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives. (Diverse Topics).
The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives. Edited by Jon Newsom and Alfred Mann. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2000. [733 p. ISBN 0-8444-0987-1.$85.] The folded frontispiece of the Library of Congress's magnificent publication on the Hans Moldenhauer Archives...

Rates of alcohol dependence are high in bipolar II patients.
PITTSBURGH -- Patients with bipolar II disorder are at high risk for alcohol abuse and dependence, based on findings from a 20-year, longitudinal study with about 600 subjects. The study's findings also suggest that bipolar II disorder can be more broadly defined than current DSM-IV criteria, Kathleen...

Alindogan appointed new DBP Chairman.
Byline: EDU H. LOPEZ President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has appointed former Monetary Board member Antonino L. Alindogan, Jr. as the new chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). Alindogan replaces Vitaliano N. NaA[+ or -]agas II who resigned from the state-owned bank to...

From 'desert castle' to medieval town: Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (Syria).
Introduction Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi is one of the so-called Umayyad 'desert castles', a term applied to a series of fortified sites belonging to the early period of Islam but recovering different realities (Finster & Schmidt 2005). It certainly represents one of the most impressive and best-preserved secular...

Reformed confessions: theology from Zurich to Barmen.
REFORMED CONFESSIONS: THEOLOGY FROM ZURICH TO BARMEN. By Jan Rohls. Translated from the German by John Hoffmeyer. Columbia Series in Reformed Theology. Louisville: Westminster/Knox, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 311. $35. This volume fills the need for a scholarly study of Reformed confessional theology from the early Reformation...

Augen zu.
Ruth Schweikert. Augen zu. Zurich. Ammann. 1998. 158 pages. DM 36. isbn 3-250-60024-5. Ruth Schweikert, one of the new generation of Swiss authors, published Augen zu (Eyes Closed) to general critical acclaim in the German- speaking press, and I find that praise fully warranted. Critics had lauded...