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"teach yourself Romansh" DVD (yes, it does exist) and memorised some words 1nd simple phrases. No problem. Then I signed up for a language and literature course at the local university. Easy. Then came the slow realisation that I might have been better off with Esperanto, and not just because more people Speak it." r page 90 a

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faux-glam career as aTV presenter and reporter for a job as a property developer-'demon speculator' to many... It was as if I'd declared my intention to start pitching the nation's grannies off those famous

white cliffs of Dover. There was no career choice more questionable, no breed ofbesuited hordes more reviled than those doing property deals. Save politicians and journalists, I

thought, recalling a poll that put all three professional groups ar the top of the mosthated, least-trusted charts. I neglected to draw attention to the fact I'd been a political correspondent in Canada. Strike three for me." . page 92

Hands up if you've ever been in this situation: You're at a party making small talk with someone you don't know. After ex-

changing the usual'...so how do you know Bill then?'there's a pause and, you know it's coming:'So what do you do?'

What they don't say is:'Been eating any carrots then?'The simple fact is that, in our society, what job you have is a key for others in deciding who you are... You might say to yourself: who cares what I do, and what people think about what I do. Nice try, but for others looking to do some quick pigeon-holing your occupation is key." r page 93

About WORLDRADIO,CH WHO WE ARE Simply put, World Radio Switzerland is the English-language radio station of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. we're the national public service radio for English speakersand aspiring English speakers.

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I'll want you to tell us what's on your mind, what's of concern to you, to give us pointers and ideas on how we can provide you with a valuable servrce. lt'll be a running conversation, across the country, held on as many available platforms as possible so you can have your say and see what others are saying wherever you are.

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financial crisis-and now a franc that keeps hitting new record highs against the euro. After a S.S% decline last year,

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will drop an additional z.5z in zoro. Alpine hotels have been hit harder than city ones, possibly due to cheap plane tickets making short jaunts to urban centers more affordable than trips to secluded mountain resorts.

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and you get Solange la Frange, the Swiss band that's been seducing the audiences of European festivals. Created in zooz in Vevey by Julie Hugo, Tristan Basso and Luca Manto under the name Foxy Boop and the Man with a Sweet Case, the group was quickly noticed beyond Swiss borders. Their first album, self-titled and in stores since March, incorporates the best of rock and punk while surfing on powerful electro sounds.

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of palm oil in products such as KitKat bars, Nestl6 decided to end its contract with Smart, a subsidiary of one of the Ieading Indonesian producers of the oil, in favour of anolher, presumably more eco-friendly supplier. In a company statement, Nestla said it was "concerned about the threat to the environment in South East Asia caused by the planting of palm oil plantations." Creenpeace dismissed the move, calling it "window dressing."

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Your money or your home life What's more important for Swiss workers, their private lives or their pocketbooks? According to Swiss lawmakers, it's the money, honey. ln March, the Federal Council rejected a popular initiative to grant all workers at least six weeks of vacation per year. Proponents of the idea argued that more days off would be good for workers' health and private lives. On the other hand, according to legislators, imposing more vacation would make it harder for companies to give raises or let employees work part-time.

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'As an example of direct democracy, Switzerland has all the necessary assets to become a model of openness and generosity" ROGER PFUND

ARI Roger Pfund was born in Bern to a Swiss father and French mother. ln 1971, he won first prize in the Swiss National Bank's competition to design a new series of banknotes; he has specialized in creating banknotes and paper securities ever since. ffund is the creative spirit behind the banknotes that are now in circulation as well as the current Swiss passport.

"As an artist, painter, graphic artist and designer, my ideas and opinions about Swiuerland are expressed through design. I love my country and I try to give it a positive image.

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I've been working with the Swiss National Bank since r97r. Banknotes are excellent ambassadors for a country; they can be found everywhere, in every pocket, and are one of the first images people discover when setting foot in a foreign country.

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In about two years, Switzerland will issue a new series of banknotes.

We have chosen to represent a modern, positive and dynamic image of the country, through its role as a platform for the coming together of people and ideas from all over the world. The notes will portray humanitarianism, economy, culture, research, sport and tourism.

There will be no portraits this time as they are, by definition, a retum to the past, We want to go forward and present a country open to the world. I sometimes regtet certain movements which stubbomly attempt to keep an old, conservative and selfi.sh image of Switzerland!

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on the one hand a serious, almost unexciting image that flts the world of banking, cleanliness, and security, and on the other hand the scenic reputation linked with the traditional clich6 of cheese, chocolate, and mountains, which is good for tourism. I think the country needs a third image showing its innovative and inventive side. What it needs is a 'bag of tricks' to take people by surprise.

I see this'bag'as carrying the country's different

assets, such as its effi.ciency in innovation. If I were in charge of its image makeover, I would put

together a guerilla marketing campaign using Switzerland's most extreme designers who live abroad-such as Yves Behar, Claude Zellweger and Olivier Chetelat in San Francisco alone-to show this new image in other countries, I think that we Swiss don't put ourselves forward enough. The country has an original, creative and almost quirky side which people abroad don't nec-

essarily know about. I would promote its most innovative minds: professors, artists, architects and those responsible for start-ups.

in San Francisco have toid me that they love Switzerland because they feel it offers a safe place to experiment with new ideas. Our country is not just a place that sells chocolate, but one where chocolate is created. We should deflnitely go beyond the traditional image and promote switzerland as an innovation platform."

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PIERRE KELLER DESIGN Director of the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) since 1995, Pierre Keller has made it one of the top art schools in Europe. Always outspoken and highly visible, he has, his admirers say, done as much to revitalize the image of Swiss design as did the invention of the Swatch.

"Switzerland's image must be reinforced quickly; it needs new, original ideas. Organizations such as Presence Switzerland must be reinforced with more people and more money. Other bodies such as Swissnex are serving Switzerland well and must continue doing what they do.

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"What Switzerland is lacking is leadership; it has no strong political flgures. Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, for example, doesn't seem to have any strategy to promote the country's image. Like the United States, France or Cermany, which have groups of people working on their country's images abroad, Switzerland should set up an image-building body. This could be presided over by the Vice-Chancellor, who is already in charge of communications, and the rest of the team would be made up of communications professionals to develop Switzerland's image and advertise its openness to intemational relations.

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I like to call Switzerland'the Colden Nugget of the World.'with its political stability, favorable tax regime and beautiful landscapes, the country has always attracted the rich and the powerful, and it needs to continue on the same lines because that's what it is good at."

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PEDRO SIMKO MARKETING Harvard graduate Pedro Simko was born in Buenos Aires to Austrian parents. ln 1991, he co{ounded Simko Communication in Geneva before selling his company to Saatchi & Saatchi in 2004.

Ioday, he is Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland and Chief Marketing Officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa'

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trains and buses in Swttzerland to be free" MAITHEW STEVENSON BANKING A native New Yorker, Matthew Stevenson settled in Geneva in 1991, where he managed a bank for 15 years. Now a writel he is a contributing editor at Harper's and a contributor to (Not So) Foreign Aftairs

on WRS.

"I like the image of Switzerland

in the world, at least more than I like the idea that countries can be'rebranded,' which strikes me as a waste of time and money. I like it that Switzerland never had colonies, that its national debt is manageable, that my neighbors are friendly, and that I can bike to work.

But if I did want to see a change in Switzerland's image abroad, I would like there to be more sleeper trains leaving from Ceneva (to London, Berlin, and Rome), and I would like all trains and buses in Switzerland to be free which would work as trade and tourist promotion too.

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JACQUES PILET JOURNALISM Founder of the weekly magazine L'Hebdo, Jacques Pilet is a politicaljournalist born in La Tour-de-Peilz.

He has worked for several Swiss newspapers (Le Nouveau Quotidien, which he founded, and 24 Heures) and for Swiss TV, both as a reporter (Temps Prรถsentl and producer (Iel/ Ouel). He is currently head of editorial development for Ringier Publishing House Switzerland and a regular contributor to L'Hebdo, Sonntagsblick, Sie und Er and the German magazine Crcero.

"There are two kinds of people: those who don't necessarily keep abreast ofpolitical events and perceive the country through a positive eye, and the more informed circle of people who are slowly changing their views and becoming irritated by a country that wants to have its cake and eat it, too.

The latter are the people for whom Switzerland must flnd itself a new image.

It needs to intensify its political contacts by having its ministers travel more, rather than dealing with other countries through embassies and specialized committees.

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suggest an international forum on bank secrecy, for instance, and the organization ofdebates on a number ofvarious subjects.

Such events are lacking in Swizerland.

We need to explain to other countries that we're not trying to withdraw into ourselves. Switzerland has plenty of assets, but doesn't exploit them. Look at our tunnels; although they are used mostly by Europeans traveling from nofth to south, Moritz Leuenberger, head ofthe Federal

Department of Tlansport, doesn't bother promoting these infrastructures abroad. I would add that if Switzerland were in the EU it could get subsidies for its tunnels."

"We need to explain to other countries that we're not trying to withdraw into ourselves" t8 ONAIR summer2olo

DOS AND DON'TS OF IMAGE BUILDING A strong brand is essential in today's

competitive world, for individuals trying to get ahead on the job as well as . for companies and the products they make. However, there are good and bad ways to go about creating a brand. Our Swiss experts give their top tips for creating the right image and avoiding pitfalls.

"Switzerland should address its status as a neutral country and see whether it is still valid"

"The most important thing when building an image is to be sincere, " insists Roger Pfund. Pedro Simko agrees: "The

only way to give a credible image is to give a realistic image; if you start lying about yourself sooner or later people will see through your game and won't buy your stories anymore." Matthew Stevenson adds that you should promote your assets and not try to give something you can't really deliver.

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Pilet. "one should be proactive and take initiative." Christian Simm agrees: "Don't be shy. You should know how to put your achievements forward." says Iacques

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Pfund. By being tolerant you will make yourself look approachable.

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is an independent consultant and researcher on world affairs. She has a degree from the Graduate lnstitute of lnternational Studies and Development in Geneva. She is a regular contributor to WRS's /nfernatrbnal Relations

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join the EU or not rather than strive for an appeasing consensus which leads nowhere.

Switzerland could have a lot of good things to bring to the EU, such as a sensible decentralisation, administrative efficiency, etc. The politicians should, at least, organize political debates based on the question a decision to

of

joining.

'The first thing Switzerland should look at is the elements that aren't going weII. It needs to question its relationship with Europe, its relation with money and investment and, above all, it should address its status as a neutral country and see whether it is still valid. Switzerland is a s체ange kind of hybrid animal which has adopted many of the EU laws, but at the same time somehow manages to stay outside the communiry. Swiss politicians should make

Image cannot be faked; Switzerland needs to promote what it really is and focus on its strengths. Hence, it needs to keep up its image as a country which offers concrete solutions, such as micro-credit structures,

"often people talk about what is important to them and forget that what they're saying might not be relevant to the listeners," says Simko, "You need to give an insightful story."

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Wikipedia, the online compendium of arguable knowledge, roughly deflnes innovation as "new stuffthat is made useful." Based solely on that simple notion, Switzerland is a country chock full of innovative folks. The world can thank a Swiss inventor for everything from crystallography to aluminum foil. Even if one deflnes innovation in terms of sheer smarts (versus creativity), the Swiss easily take the brain power per capita title with the most Nobel Laureates.

with this seemingly unrivaled aptitude to create "new stuff, " why then is the world's most competitive economy fretting so much over the loss of theirbanking secrecy cash cow? The public "Party is Over" headlines from last year continue to fuel private debates about the future of the country.

What appears to be at the heart of this unceftainty is a lack of confldence in the Swiss capability to market its "new stutr'

in the globally integrated marketplace.

While Swiss marketing mainstays such as chocolate, watches and cheese have be-

come embedded in the global conscience, there is a serious bottleneck in quickly bringing the Swiss entrepreneur's new and unique products and services to the same level of market penetration.

Tackling demographics should represent the least daunting of the challenges.

Critical mass and limited internal market size-previously sizable entry barriers for entrepreneurs from smaller countries-no longer carry the same weight in the highly connected global economy. Even in the culturally compartmentalized Swiss economy, the classic "inventor in a garage" can use the Intemet to reach out to a huge audience in a tiny fraction of time compared to even five years ago.

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after survey shows public complacency a culture centered around risk aversion. Failure is to be avoided at all costs. While the low tolerance for screwing up certainly works in some arenas, the notion stymies the optimal growth curve for taking new ideas to a broader world market. A wellregarded Swiss colleague of mine, who manages a substantial venture capital fund, noted point-blank that "[risk aversion] is in our genes." This strong resistance to change by the general population results in an unusually high percentage

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3. Education Or lack thereof, represents a much larger challenge. While the well-known (and well-funded) Swiss innovation agency, CTI, remains at the forefront of transferring Swiss know-how from academia to business, a major gap exists in terms of teaching entrepreneurship. Bright young Swiss minds toil away at solving some of the world's most complex problems

without a proper tool set on how to bring their innovations to the world market.

This situation is exacerbated by a lack of incentives for world-class entrepreneurs to join the ranks ofhighbrow Swiss academia as both role models and instructors.

of so-called "lifestyle" businesses and very few global success stories. Closed markets and provincialism, to a much lesser degree, foster the ability for small firms to sustain themselves for years (or even decades) with little hope for a

meaningful exit.

"Survey after survey shows public complacency that is deeply embedded in a culture centered around risk aversion at all costs" Again though, the issue is not monetary or a lack of business acumen. A recent Chamber of Commerce study shows that Switzerland (as a per capita measurement) exceeds the disputed homeland of entrepreneurship, the United States.

the future of the Swiss entrepreneur is public perception. only by properly preparing students for a career as entrepreneurs and then rewarding them for both their successes and measured failures can Switzerland take its rightful seat as the world's top innovator. o

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Of course, the issue is hardly marketing prowess per se. The Swiss flag as a brand is one of the most easily recognizable in the world. The main hurdles to an entrepreneur friendly environment are much deeper and far-reaching.

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Expat life often means finding yourself in a country where you can't continue working in your chosen profession. Perhaps you're an accompanying spouse and you haven't been allocated a work permit or your language skills create a barrier on the local job market-or maybe there simply are no jobs

available in your fleld of expertise.

staft all over again.

If you beat your head against a brick wall and moan about what you can't do, you'll never really enjoy your time abroad. The key is to take stock, reinvent yourself and think about what you can do. We found The choice is clear: You have to

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friends-all of them fathers with children-were chatting and discovered that aII ofthem had lots of baby clothes which no longer fi.t their children but were still in very good condition. So they hit on the idea of selling those clothes on the Intemet, formed a company and the Babygenie (b abyge nie.ch) w as bom. o

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Rodriguez Barros had a background in design and communication, and she worked happily in that fleld whilst living in Buenos Aires.

When she arrived in SwitzerIand, her job options were limited, so she then spent some introspective time de-

ciding what she really wanted to do.

"over the years I had been giving advice to friends and colleagues about how to improve their posture, how to dress to give themselves more confldence. In South America, we like to wear bright

But remember," says Barros, "I am fromArgentina. When you can't even take money out ofthe ATM because the bank doesn't have any, now

clothes," she explains, "yet I was encountedng women over here who felt they had to

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wear the subdued colours that the Swiss tend to Prefer.

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originally from Argentina, Carolina

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"That flrst year was tricky, " he remembers. "I had been

working in Manhattan and living my life at roo miles an hour. Here in Geneva, it felt like somebody had slammed the brakes on hard when I discovered I couldn't continue working in my panicular fleld of law."

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Pete Forster paid a visit to Nissan headquarters in Rolle and turned the headlights away from the cars and onto the man behind them. t Adapted by Mathieu Henderson/LargeNetwork

Pierre Loing is Vice President ofProduct Strategy and Planning for Nissan Intemational. His team takes new car models from idea to reality, and Loing shares credit forbringing to Europe one of Nissan's most successful cars ever: the Qashqai. Before joining Nissan, Loing held a similar role in Renault when the now famous merger-or perhaps takeover is closer to the mark*between the two car manufacturers took place in 1999. It was

the flrst time in the automobile industry that aJapanese and French company had come together in this way.

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as a senior product manager. Was the merger of the two cultures problematic?

PIERRE LOINC It wasn't too difficult because we managed to expand the company

and bring back some optimism. Nissan had been struggling with financial difficulties for quite a few years, which meant that product activity was in very slow motion. The projects at the time were based on limited investments: The lower the investment, the higher the risk of the project was. that kind of system rarely works in the car industry because it's an area where you need to invest heavily to maintain a certain amount of competitiveness.

When the new team arrived, Mr. Chosn's (Carlos Ghosn, head of Nissan Renault) poliry was to spend more. At the time, I think the ratio of spending to tumover for Nissan was around z percent, maybe less.

While the average of the industry is around 3.5 or 4 percent, Mr. Ghosn boosted to around 5 percent. So suddenly the product planning team in Japan was able to have ideas again and come up with new cars.

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Another reason for the merger not being too painful is that French and lapanese people share one thing in common which I think helped in understanding each other: a passion for food. §o nice business lunches helped?

It wasn't only the fact of having lunch to-

gether, but also just talking about food.

Japanese people, when they're interested in something, they really have a passion for it. When it comes to food, for instance, Japan has aU types ofregional products from almost every country in the world.

When you zap through the TV channels, there are cooking or food testing programs at almost any time of the day. As French people like their food too, it gave us the oppornrnity to have something to talk about after work, outside the work place.

The same applies to cars; Iapanese garages

have the most beautiful vehicles. And I'm obviously interested in cars too, the link with the ]apanese team was very easy. because

When you were there in the late '9os,

the Japanese industry was just coming to tenns with the concept that lifetime guarantees of employment and lifetime seryice to the comp:rny were ways of the past. You even had to let certain numbers of employees go. Were there any difĂźculties negotiating that part of the new business?

I can't really comment on that, because I wasn't involved in the redundancy process. But from what I remember, it

wasn't too difficult. fapanese people did use to work for the same company from leaving university until retirement. This was particularly the case in big companies. When we arrived in 1999 however, that had already started to change. I would

compare it with what happened in France in the early'8os when mammoth companies, in the steel industry for example, went belly up. These were businesses you would never have imagined could go bankrupt. That's when people started to realize that working for a big flrm didn't necessar-

ily mean having a safe job for life. Similarly, before we arrived in Iapan, two large companies went bankrupt and I think that helped people in Nissan to realize that their jobs weren't perennial. Japanese people are extremely dedicated to their companies and once the Nissan employees understood their bosses had to release some of the workers to stay in business, they accepted it.

I remember when we closed a factory in the suburbs ofTokyo, the workers never stopped the production until the very last day. Although they knew the place was going to be shut down, they kept working as hard as they always had, tuming out the right quality ofproducts and the right number of units. The;apanese are so dedicated to their fi.rms that they don't attempt any kind of sabotage. Luckily, a year later, most of these people were rehired because the situation had changed dramatically and the company needed more workers.

Nissan is the producer ofPatrols and big 4x4s, so one doesn't automatically

think of its enyironmentally friendly

credentials. What is the company doing

to correct that? that we will be among the flrst-hopefuuy the fi.rst-to mass-produce an electric vehicle. We're planning on launching the Leaf at the end of the year in the U.S., fapan and Europe. This car has no tailpipe, hence no emission. We have quite a lot of small cars which are competiWe have announced

with my team here, which inciudes

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ferent nationalities, is to blend different opinions and points of view.

Is your door always open to people

with

new ideas or criticism?

It's much easier than that because I don't have a door. We work in open spaces. be critical ofyour own style or parts of your managerial skills, what would you like to improve?

I don't really know, in fact. I probably could

Ifyou were to

be more direct sometimes, give ciear direc-

tions earlier in the process. I tend to forge my opinion but not impose it on the team, and sometimes you gain time and efficiency

if, Nissan Pixo

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ofyour experience, you think,

"oh no this won't work." I tend not to do this but I think at the same time it's also a

strength for me and my team because people feel empowered in the solutions they can bring to the table for the cars they are

with product managers trying to convince me; I can change my opinion when I have been proved wrong. And even when I don't change my opinion, I always encourage my team members to argue their points of view. i.n charge of. I have no problems

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currently working on improving its CO2 footprint and Co2 average. we have the Qashqai, which is our best selling car with 2oo,ooo units a year. We also have probably the best selling engine, the small diesel, which starts at rz9 gram. And we have a label called "Pure Drive", which helps customers identify the cars which are below 14o gram. So the company is

quite competitive in this fieid.

Strategically, does this have to be the direction for your car company and all car companies? or is the market segmented?

I don't think the market is segmented by technoiogy. It's true that there are several technologies competing to reduce CO2.

However, at the end of the day, the customer isn't looking for a technology as such, but for qualities such as fuel economy or driving pleasure. In that respect, driving pleasure in an electric car is enormous because the eiectric motor delivers the

full

talk right from the start by accelerating very quickly. However, as the range limit of these vehicles is 16o km, which represents 80 percent of weekly trips for

Europeans, people who drive more than 16o km per week wiII probably not buy an electric car.

As head of a major unit for Nissan, you are a few steps away from the head of Nissan Renault, a position now held by Carlos Ghosn. Do you hope to be at the top ofNissan one day?

I'm not applying for any jobs yet. I'm enjoying what I do immensely. I've always ioved cars and I have this huge advantage of being abie to define cars and I try to identify future trends. I consider myself to be one of the fathers of the Qashqai or the Juke that we have just launched. when I look at our cars on the road I often think that we have done well.

You're obviously very passionate about cars, but passion can only go so far. what has been your strategy to arrive at your present senior position? What do you attribute your success to?

it

is

brilliant

to work and to live here, especially in the Vaud area where there is the lake. It's also very central in Europe which means there is access to a very international, highlyqualified market. Also, although Lausanne is the size of a sma1l French provincial

town, there are two highly ranked universities: EPFL and IMD. In fact, I think EPFL is top of the non-American universities in the world, according to the Shanghai ranking. And, obviously,the tax regime is an issue, because here it is more favorable

than in certain other countries.

What about you; do you enjoy

living here? in Lausanne and i enjoy i.t immensely.

Switzerland is an idyllic country to live in especially if you like skiing-which my kids do-because the mountains are so close. The quaiity of the education is very high too. It's also very handy when you're . a French person because you live next door to your home country. Even if the Swiss do I live

speak French

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funny accent...

I am lucky to have been sent to several

I've heard that for a French person, the Swiss Romand can be difficult because people expect you to know what to do, and you may not being doing it the

countries: I have worked in Cermany,

Swiss way. Have you not come across

Japan and North America and I

think that has helped me gain an intemational

this at all?

overview. I consider myself to be an atypical French person and less arrogant than my feliow countrymen. Having said that, I'm very French all the same and I'm attached to my roots. what I always try to do

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I've found it extremely easy to settie in.

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Things are buzzing in the city by the laken with new building projects set to transform the cultural landscape and reclaim lost rhoods.

Toni-Areal project

Switzerland's biggest city is experiencing a cultural revamp, thanks in part to ambitious local entrepreneurs and companies around the Zurich West district. A series of dynamic building projects and stylish overhauls have rescued a number of rundown areas from oblivion and brought new excitement to the city's cultural life.

ONAIR profiles three regeneration projects that have become key players in the city's new urban frontier-pushing Zurich's culture into the future whilst remaining passionate about the influences of the city's classic style.

Toni-Areal The vast industrial space that once churned out yogun and dairy products is now set to produce Swiuerland's next creative generation. Set in the

bring to life what is currently a rather empty part of the city.

The area is expected to start buzzing as 7o,ooo of the 90,ooo square metres wiII be

heart of industrial Zurich west, this huge factory space will be the new home for Zurich University ofArts, as well as apartments, a cinema, a concert venue and a rooftop public park. Planned to open in summer 2013, the project is a huge undertaking but is in the experienced hands ofAllreal real estate property group.

developed for the arts school,

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bathing area which has fast become an essential Zurich experience on a warrn summer night.

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Launched this summer, the ImViaduct arches have been transformed into a soo-metre long market street. The viaducts have historically separated the "old" and the"new" in Kreis 5. Now this monument to early industrial times will be the element linking the two. It has quickly become home to several = = quirky and independent boutiques, stylish new covered market. a apartments and Zurich's flrst-ever From bookshops to designer galleries, from a cräche to tango classes, the Viaduct project looks set to be a boon not just to visitors but also to the surrounding = =

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speculation. But it's also about a new generation oflocals who are passionate about üaditional aspects ofthe city, both architecturally and culturally.

They fuse this commitment with the ambitions of the city's fast-rising entrepreneurs, who are setting up shops and bars as well as IT and graphic design companies.

But the biggest buzz seems to be focused on the long triangle formed between Limmatstrasse and Heinrichstrasse at the wipkingerViaduct down to the adjoining Letten Viaduct. Ihere this two-storey hall has been converted into a perrnanent covered market with 50 stalls run by local farmers and grocers.

A restaurant will serve up local classics-made with fresh ingredients from the market, of course.

Its success as both a cool nightspot and a popular swimming area has attracted a vibrant mix of people and it has greatly contributed to the regeneration of the area..

Roth is one of the city's new generation of cultural entrepreneurs who have driven forward the nightlife scene, which in tum has supported the regeneration of key urban areas, such as Pier West and Oberer

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at Weil am Rhein stands on a four-acre industrial estate developed in the '7os by the Vitra furniture company's Basel-born chairman Rolf Fehlbaum. Over the years he's hand-picked international architects to create the dozen or so industrial and museum buildings on site; from the first, Nicolas Grimshaw's factory building in r98r, to Frank Gehry's design museum in r.989, to Zaha Hadid's fire sta-

At the opening of Herzog & de Meuron's VitraHaus in February, Jacques }{erzog claimed, "Vitra has put Weil am Rhein on the map." Just outside Basel across the Swiss-German border, the Vitra campus

1994 and, most recently, rletzog & de Meuron's VitraHaus, with a factory hall

by Japanese duo SANAA to open in autumn 2or.o. Yet Fehlbaum has hit back at what some describe as this " stamp-collecting" approach to architecture,"We are not a sort of zoo for buildings, " he says. But, from a visitor's perspective, does it really matter what you label it? Admiring a

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the "silent senator" of Swiss architecture; his showcase Therme Vals in Craubünden reflects his understated approach. "For me what's important is the smeU of the earth, " he says. "Architecture expresses

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space, organic curves and a learned hush to all areas.

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in good weather. Nishizawa explains the ethos: "Human movement§ are not linear like a train travels, but curve in a more organic way...architectural forms can be created

from human movements, and, in turn, architecture influences humans." Hmm...

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itself through what

surrounds us. It's about composing your materials-like buying clothes." Zumthor believes in sourcing locally and so based the whole stnrcture on the local grey Vals quartz, which was cut to size in the quarry just behind the nearest

village. The natural spring baths (a temperate 3o'C) are fed from the mountainside and framed by walls made of thin slabs. Small monastic windows filter in shafts of light, which play on the surface of the water and hit the walls at angles like laser beams. And Therme Vals is inset into the side of the mountain, so a summer swim in the pools outside offers a stunning view ofthe surround-

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still the church interior to visit.

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brings you to the circular sanctuary ofthe chapel, where the focal point is the religious contemporary artwork ofEnzo Cucchi, whose fresco altarpiece depicts a pair ofhands in a white outline on a dark blue background, lit from above by skylights that appear to cast light from the heavens. So be prepared: Inside and out, the Chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli is as dramatic as an Old Testament scene.

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This stylish boutique hotel is home to one of Zurich's most original restaurants. Recently awarded:.4 Cault Millau points, Helvetia offers Swiss brasserie classics and market-fresh specials every day. Set at exactly the point where the busy banking district meets the pulsating, youthful, artsy I(reis 4, it's an essential networking nightspot for locals. Its intimate terrace overlooks the river and is perfect for either fun with friends or impressing a date. Make sure to have an aperitif beforehand in what is maybeZurich's best kept secret: the hotel's tiny rooftop bar.

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The city and lake stretch out below the hotel, with the Alps along the horizon. The expansive terrace ofthe Rzr restaurant menu combines creative and contemporary culinary an with an Italian edge. The style is elegant but fantastic views dd an extra, more relaxed holience to a dinner or lunch here. or just take in a cocktail at Bar zr, a luxurious lounge with chilled house grooves and a candlelit terrace.

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After winding your way down through the woods to the Aare river, you'll stumble across the dramatic setting for one of Bem's most stunning venues.

Perched over the water, the ter-

Schwellenmätteli, dubbed "the Riviera" by locals,

there is stiU more than a touch of romance here thanks to the stylish terrace overlooking the tthine. Be prepared to spend some time mulling over the 7oo-plus wines on offer.

Notable guests over its storied past include everyone from the Dalai Lama to Napoleon

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Süetch out on the wooden sun loungers with a vodka cocktail, and you will deflnitely catch the holiday mood. on Friday and Saturday, special programmes featuring music, dance and cultural events

sometimes keep the party going until3 am. Altematively, have an aftemoon mint tea and mufün or a tasty late Sunday brunch.

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It's no surprise to leam that one ofEurope's oldest city hotels is home to one of Switzerland's most striking city terraces.

Although leaning heavily towards a rather formal, gourrnet dining experience-the restaurant boasts two MicheUn stars and 18 Gault Millau

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Its elegant flower-fllled terrace overlooks the small panoramic viewpoint where the poet Lamartine is said to have loved to stop and think. The restaurant offers fine French cuisine and, due to its unique setting,

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village. Fifteen minutes down the road from Lausanne will bring you to this medieval

This architectural masterpiece in the heart of Luceme is one of the country's most attractive urban hotels. Overseen by the powerhouse architectural team Herzog &de Meuron, it's a highly reflned design experience. The vast terrace ofits Penthouse rooftop bar is the focal point for the city's summer social scene, always fllled with local movers and shakers. With beautiful cityscapes, luxurious sofas and

palm trees blowing in the breeze, it feels more St Tropez than Switzerland.

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suburb which is packed full of restaurants with terraces looking right out on the lake. Perhaps the most popular is the Caf6 de la Poste which specializes infilets de perche. Its atmosphere and menu mix local dishes with a touch of the Mediterranean, which sums up the atmosphere too, especially on a sultry summer's evening,

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This somewhat sprawling complex of restaurants and bars offers a more contemporary, chic alternative to the many traditional restaurant terraces along Ascona's promenade. The Sea Lounge is the place to be, situated right on the lakeside at the

small yacht harbour. Its modern terrace has views of the piazza, Old Town and Brissago Island. Sip a Long Island Ice Tea, order up a deluxe burger from the grill and settle down for a true slice of time out, Ticino style.

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players, adding a touchof. jazz to the dance sounds. Inside it's nicely intimate with a rustic design theme that runs throughout the bar and deluxe brassiere sryle restaurant.

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ALBERTINE BOURGET Freelance iournalist Before arriving in Bern 10 years ago, Albertine Bourget,34, lived in Paris.

She always had a passion for books. 'l started reading at a very young age. I even got up before school to read novels!"

After studying literature, she decided to switch to journalism because she didn't see herself as a teacher. She's been working as a freelance journalist for seven years, writing for publications such as Le Temps and

"Bem really comes alive when the weather is nice, and has a Iot ofpleasant spots to have a drink outdoors. The summer highlight is the Marzili, by the riverAare, where all of Bern goes to relax or have a swim, right under the Federal Palace. Those who have never been should mir\d the strong current and the red handles to get out ofthe water. I am a scaredy cat and never go by myself. But once you're out, you feel both exhausted and

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Christian Schmid, 29, especially enjoys the active and inspiring cultural scene. He's a member of the Jazzwerkstatt Bern, a group of young musicians who organise a festival once a year and have also formed a band, the Ballbreaker Ensemble, in which he plays the bass.

After his classical music

studies, Christian lived in Amsterdam and studied jazz al lhe conservatory.

Two years later, he felt the urge to return to Bern.

"One important reason I came back was to spend more time working with my own band, Next Generation Orchestra, a duo also known as N.G.O. A second reason was love. And a third reason was the city itself.'

this place is its gym hall origins (the Progr was a high school). They left uaces of the gym, like the basketball net, and installed a gallery with a bar and small tables. It's popular with people in their zos and up. The atmosphere is very nice, modern but not cold. I usually go there either before or after rehearsals at the Progr, which is the Cultural center of Bern, to have a coffee orbeer.

Every Wednesday and Sunday I also perform there in a concert. Another favorite place is the Gurten, the little moun-

tain of Bern-after an hour's walkup from the Curtenbahn you have a beautiful view of the Bemese Alps. I normally go there once a week to enjoy the panorama. one of my favorite restaurants is o'Bolles, located in a central spot between the Lorraine, Länggasse and the

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"The Historical Museum always has fascinating exhibitions. I love the exterior architecture of this museum and the fact that it's not too big.

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ian meal. It's a small restaurant in the Old Town, next to the Zytglogge (the most famous tourist attraction in Bern), that offers excellent meals and very good wines.

The chic, Italian atmosphere makes it a great place to eat.

For nights out, the Bierhübeli and its'Special Parties' is the best. There are concerts, jazz nights, '9os parties, parties for age 3o and up...the place is always full! You have to buy tickets a few days ahead of time for the special events."

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IVlorning Start by walking along the streets between the station and the OIdTown, browsing the boutiques and admiring the Renaissance fountains and the Bundeshaus completed in r9oz. The wonderful scents of the fruit and vegetable markets enrapture anyone crossing the Marktgasse. Browsing the stalls, you can discover local products and chat with other shoppers. Just before noon, climb the tower of the Bemer M체nster (the cathedral) for a stunning view of the old Town. When hunger strikes, cross the Kirchenfeldbr체cke Bridge linking Casinoplatz to Helvetiaplatz in the Kirchenfeld neighborhood and enjoy a meal on the terrace of

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UNDERWATER PLAYGROUND Lake Neuchätel You don't need to dive very deep to see an impressive number offlsh in Lake Neuchätel

during the summer. Beginners can learn scuba basics at the Oceane diving center in Neuchätel and quickly be able to discover this magical world below the surface. Qualifled divers can explore the lake's unique underwater playground featuring cliffs, boat wrecks, an underwater photo exposition and even...a bathroom!

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HYDROSPEEDING Sarine river If river rafting sounds too tame for you, lose the raft. Hydrospeeders swim through rapids equipped with a float,

helmet, wetsuit, life jacket and flippers. one of the best-known sites for this is the Sarine fuver.

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accessories and designer bouquets.

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delicious bread from a wood oven. Shopping and lifestyle combine for retail pleasure at this smart, contemporary mall!

2nd floor: Da Giovanni (perfect fresh pasta...), a new Coop restaurant, as well as Le Panetier, Molino, Martel, E-wok and a host of others.

La Praille also offers great family leisure: a 26-lane bowling alley, solarium, fitness club (with heated pool), children's nursery, TV studio and a live-show stage. Plus latest names in snacks and dining on the

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An extremely funny novel with biting wit; the tale of a young American woman on the make in '5os

Paris-a classic.

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by SusanJ.Douglas Don't let the title turn you American hubris. We quickly found ourselves in offfrom taking it to the way over our heads and beach. This funny, whipunder govemment surveilsmart book is a scathing lance. Soon, we began to critique of the images of women in American media. unravel-one of us physically, the other psychologFrom Gossip Cirl to Crey's ically-and almost didn't Anatomy, from Paris Hilton to Hillary Clinton, Douglas make it otJt. Eat,PraI,Love this isn't! takes on the dueling, equally unrealistic images of women that suggest we've already made it in society and should therefore concentrate on looking

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Enlightened Sexism

A native NewYorker andlongtime European expat author and

husband leaves her for a guy he met on the Internet and saddles her with a mortgage she cantafford

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ln the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War byJustineHardy

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Constance Spry: From Social Reformer

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teenager and his father bonding by watching three films a week together for a year.

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A gripping and deeply moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia by an Orange

Prize-shortlisted and highly acclaimed author.

Journeys

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The first English translation of Zweig's writings on his

travels in Europe, which

paints a rich and sensitive picture of Europe before the

author Läckberg, this third

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the heyday of intemational

fiction at its chiliing best.

Not for the faint-hearted!

A people's

history of the famous wartime code-breaking country house, where top scientists sworn to utmost

rail travel.

back to life with the wizards of the Unseen University trying to win a football match

without üsing magic.

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fun activity for children to work on during the summer, this book includes a giant fold-out family tree poster,

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thoughts tum France-ward and south: to Provence and its sun-baked hills, the Mediterranean sun, p6tanque under the plane trees, the mistral and all that. So it may come as a surprise that Switzerland, too, though a long way from Provelrce, makes ros6s of real

distinction. many, the idea of any ros6 of distinction is a categorybender. Tfue, you will seldom hear For

connoisseurs going into raptures over ros6. there are people who think wine should be approached with a sort of

trembling solemnity, that if it's not worthy of a hushed reverence it's not worth drinking.

If that's you, ros6 will never be your thing.

For others, ros6 is quaffing wine, something to be sipped with a salad or, better, to lubricate a game of p6tanque. Ttris

image is entirely understandable, given that many people's experience is limited to a threeeuro supernarket wine, or a cheap-as-chips carafe in a 'Provengal pleasant cafd :

enough, but tending to flab, sweetness and general lack of

excitement. But do a little digging (and drinking) among

the ros6s of Switzerland and you are in for a revelation-and a thoroughly enjoyable one..

Some of the best ambassadors for Swiss ros6 hail from that

canton of diplomacy, Geneva.

The gamay grape is one

of the star performers and heavy lifters of Genevan wines, and a large proportion of Genevois gamay ends up as ros6. At their best, these wines leave theirbetter known southem cousins in the shade: bighearted, tangy, coppery wines, stiffened up with a crisp acidity

and a little tannin. with its inherently robust, mildly pungent quality, gamay turns out concentrated ros6s packed with toasty, spiry, floral, and red fruit notes. As I write these words I am, in the interest of research, sipping a ros6 from the Domaine des Abeilles, and I am pleased to report aromas of strawberry and rosehip, with a toasty, truffIy, earthy backbone. Not too far the wrong side of :.o francs a bottle, this wine is an absolute steal.

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more surprises. Around the shores oflake Neuchätel you will find the oeil-de-perdrix (partridge eye), a delicate, pale

pink wine made from pinot

to Swiss wines'expensive reputation. This far north it can be

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which took exception to the high-falutin' French (presumably not, with a name like that, out of sympathy for partridges). So, Switzerland's Califomia cousin goes by the name

hard to fully ripen pinot noir grapes, so in developing a ros6 style, winemakers were making a virnre ofnecessity. The resulting wines tend to be drier than classic ros6 and more complex with an utterly tantalising nose. Ihe poetic name is due to the fact that the eye ofa partridge, apparently, turns a pale pink in its death throes.

Bypass this slightly gruesome thought and Neuchätel's pink wines have further interest as a historical curiosity. Ifyou could travel back in time and drink a glass of wine in Champagne several hundred years ago, before a ceftain Dom Perignon worked out how to make sparkling white wines from pinot noir, you would have had something not unlike the oeilde-perdrix of Neuchätel.

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ros6 surplus in the cellarwhich is no bad thing, since one of ros6's charms, even it's raining or snowing outside, is conjuring the sensa-

fomia you will be familiar with the "blush" style made in imitation of Neuchätel's oeil-deperdrix, and which would have shared its name but for the opposition ofthe Bureau of

of White Zinfandel.

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Neuchätel, and you will flnd more ros6s made from pinot noir around Zurich, and others from Grisons. Keep an eye out for Schiller, heretical in some quarters, but a Swiss tradition: a ros6 made from an assemblage ofwhite and red grapes, harvested, pressed and fermented together. Some Schillers are made with the

three pinots: noir, gris and blanc. At their best, these are solid, quirky wines well worth exploring, and on a hot summer's day, profoundly

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national headline acts performing alongside local talent. This

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Festi'neuch raises the curtain on the open-air festival season with a packed programme crossing over a huge range ofgenres. [t always includes some key inter-

band Madness and legendary heavy metal gods Deep Purple.

Highly family friendly thanks to the free Sunday afternoon Caribakids event with entertainers and face-painting.

national acts but also has an eye on breakthrough bands. This year the programme includes the electro pop of Mika, hip-hop legends Cypress

Hill and Senegalese

singerYoussou N'Dour. The magical setting for this event is at Jeunes-fuves on the shores of Lake Neuchätel. Over the weekend, it attracts an audience of more than 23,ooo, Lots of concerts for kids and special games and play areas for them, too, fe*ineuch.ch

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uniquely, the festival's camping site is set right in the main music area which means there are no boundaries between

where festival-goers sleep and watch the shows. So if you pitch up ear§, you might be lucky enough to watch your favourite band performing live without even leaving the comfort of your

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The gourmet food tents serve up sushi from Yooji's, exotic vegetarian fare from the famous Hiltl restaurant brand (they catered for Madonna when she last performed in Zurich) and fruity cocktails at the Sunset Lounge bar. This year's lineup has a definite retro theme featuring Norwegian pop heartthrobs a-ha and the soft rock ofForeigner and John Fogerty, plus '9os superstar songstress Tori Amos and the briUiant Brazilian grooves of

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This year the godfathers ofhouse music, American DJ legends Tony Humphries and Ceorge Morel, willbe on the decks.

Various stages and scene areas

of intemational bands on the retro electro rock tip, with highlights including Gossip, Elorence &The Machine, Faith No More and Empire of The Sun. Make sure not to miss the live set from drum 'n' bass act Chase and Status who are the name at this summer's coolest British festi-

vals. Some 6o,ooo music lovers are expected to attend Curten, but the camping facilities are limited to just 6,ooo and must

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Always a steliar lineup with a stunning alpine backdrop. The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra is joined this year by Cäbor Takäcs-Nagy, Evgeny Kissin, an unprecedented cycle ofSchubert's piano sonatas by

Elisabeth Leonskaja, as weII as appearances by Martha Arg-

biggest outdoor festival in

Switzerland. The lineup plays it safe, bringing in big names from the music industry-this year Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jamiroquai and N*E*R*D figure among the

headliners-as opposed to taking chances on new breakthrough acts. And big names bring in big

erich, Joshua Bell, Leonidas Kavakos, 6idon Kremer, H6IÖne

crowds. The event is a huge local

Crirnaud and many more. The closing concert features Richard Strauss's opera Salome conducted by Valery Cergiev. The

23o,ooo spectators, and tickets usually seII out within hours of going on sa1e. (But you can sometimes score last-minute tickets ifyou show up the day ofthe concert.) The food, sights and sounds of the festival's Vi1lage du Monde cultural section this year will come from Southem Africa.

daily side festival, Fest Off, features smaller street events and concerts dotted across this pretty mountain resort, so expect to stumble across the occasional jazz quartet playing in the streets or alongside a rural path.

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lakeside openair stages and lots of slde concerts in the hotels, bars and cafds of Lucerne, Blue Bal1s is easily in the top ro of Swiss cultural events. The festival programme leans towards international pop acts from the b{ues, jazz, soul and worid music genres. On the bill this year are James Morrison, Jethro Tul1, Candy Duifer, The Roots

and Beth Hart amongst many others. Many perform live at the KKL Lucerne Culture and Convention Centre, world-famous for its amazing acoustics. There are also a number of outdoor stages, exclusive photography exhibitions, a video lounge and street-art painting. Don't miss rhe Late Night ram Sessions starting from u pm at the Schweizerhof, the hotel where the musicians usually stay, and where in past years many stars have made appearances.

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This annual event transforms

the city lakefront into a posh amusement park featuring music concerts, food and fairground rides, culminating in a music-accompanied f, reworks display on August 8. There's also an eclectic selection of events throughout, from the Miss and Mister Ceneva contests to an air show to the giant fondue. Don't let them fool you though, the 10cals do come out to socialize at the temporary lakeside bars and restaurants and enjoy the rooplus free concerts at the Scene des Clubs in the English Carden and Scöne EIIa Fitzgerald in La Crange Park. The music can be anything and everything from

Urban Festival Zuridr Best for: Festival experience without leaving the city Iuly 3r Tickets CHF99; VIP packageCHE 279

A newcomer on the swiss festi-

val scene set right in the middie of Zurich amongst the cool archi-

tectural surroundings of Puls5 and Turbinenplatz, in the hip West area. This year's lineup is dominated by two huge names from the Cerman music scene: Xavier Naidoo and zRaumwohnung, both on the soulful, elec-

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dancing through the streets.

After dark the parties continue long into Sunday night in clubs and bars throughout the city. streetparade.ch

Energy 10 Best for: Hard partying August t4 CHF 83

After warming up at the Street Parade in the aftemoon, many move on to Energy 10 at the Hallenstadium. This annual event sees the arena transformed into a vast dance floor, with in-

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This musically edgy festival is set in the forest of a chic but otherwise sleepy Lausanne suburb.

But once a year Pully is home to a lestival that has become famous for showcasing bands that attract Europe's coolest music

connoisseurs. The programme was not available at press time, but previous years have seen the likes ofTricky, The Streets and Jarvis Cocker performing live.

Shoe purveyor PomP It UP is the main sponsor, helping to drive the success ofthis "alternative" festival that Lausanne locals felt was an essential antidote to the pop-music dominance of the Pal6o and Montreux festivals.

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4,ooo-metre mountains. It was formed partly as a summer residency for the musicians of the Scharoun Ensemble from Berlin to perform and pass on their experience to young musicians.

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earthquake victims.

The brainchild of Nabil Barrada, owner of Geneva's Music Store, Georges Decimus, bassist for the band Kassav, and music producer Maico Pajnano, the project brought together Geneva songwriters and musicians and features lyrics in Creole, English and Arabic. Available from September in Swiss music stores.

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After teaming up on Gladiator and scoring five Oscars, director fudley Scott and best-actor

winner Russell Crowe reunite for Robin Hood, a fi.lm based on the life ofthe legendary dogooder/thief. The movie brings to vivid life the adventures of Sir Robin ofLoxley, Earl of Huntington, bom in late rzth century England, from his debut as an archer in the army of King Richard to his retum to Nottingham where he and his band of marauders defy the sheriffand attempt to prevent a civil war. Maid Marion makes an appearance, but don't expect much romance from this mostly male tale.

How to make it a night out: Spend the day in an adventure park with family or friends to get you in the mood for derring-do. After the movie, head out for pizza to satiate the appetite ofthe junior Robins.

PRINCE OF PERSIA May26 The producers who brought you Pi r at e s of th e C a r ibb e a n and the director of Hany P otte r and the Coblet ofFire now present an action-adventure epic set in the mystical land ofPersia. A rogue prince fiake GyUenhaal) reluctantly gets involved with a mysterious princess (Cemma Arterton) ; together, they race against dark

Prince ofPersia

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forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable ofreleasing the

June

Sands ofTime-a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to ruIe the world. The screenplay is by a

Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon once again play gla-

former video-game writer so thrill-a-second visuals are virtually guaranteed.

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a Japanese restaurant.

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movie to see with your gal pals.

Ideally, go to the aftemoon matinee so you'Il be out before the shops close. By the time the credits roll, you'Il be dying to run out and buy that dress, those shoes, that bag....

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How to make it a night out: See it with your mates, of course! Lovers of muddy war movies and medieval-style beatdowns will roar at the bellicose adventures ofthe Ninth

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toria has created an army of newborn vampires to kill Bella for revenge and to battle with Edward's family. In the midst

mind,Inception boasts too many intemational stars to name, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard topping the list. It also boasts a tightly guarded plot, but according to rumors making the Intemet rounds, this is not your typical sci-fi : It takes place

ofit all, Bella has to choose between her relationship with Edward.and her friendship with

in present-day, contemporary life and revolves around a mysterious technology that allows

Jacob, a werewolf. Either way,

DiCaprio's character to enter

revolves around Bella (Kristen Ste-wart), Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and Edward (Robert Pattinson). The plot this time is certainly more romantic but no

intense; in fact, it's darker than the previous episodes. VicIess

she'll tear one ofher relationships apart. The word in HoIIywood is that director David Slade (Hard Ca ndy,jo D ays of Night) was chosen to bring more action to this third installment

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people's dreams and control

their minds. Director Christopher Nolan also wrote the script and produced the fllm with his partner Emma Thomas, with whom he teamed on the blockbuster theDarkKnight.

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How to make it a night out: For a romantic evening, start with a candlelit dinner and

ship with daughter Winnie (Mulligan), he enlists the help ofher flanc6, Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), a young trader. Jacob agrees, but asks Gekko's help in retum to get revenge on the man he blames for his mentor's death. Unexpected twists and turns ensue (this is an oliver Stone movie, after all). Watch for sexy sparks between LaBeouf and Mulligan-the actors are a couple off-screen as

well.

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Finally, the sequel you've been

waiting...and waiting...and waiting for: Twenty-three years after the AcademyAwardwinning movi e W all Street, Michael Douglas is back as Cordon Gekko. It's NewYork City, just before the 2oo8 stock market crash, and Cekko has just emerged from prison. He's still a

How to make it a night out: After a day at the mall, teens can meet up for the early

to repair his damaged relation-

flnancial genius though, and

he wants to wam Wall Street about the coming crash-but will anyone listen? AIso hoping

How to make it a night out: See it with colleagues after a tough day at work; you'llbe glad yourjob's not worse. Then head to the nearest chic lounge to relive the '9os and trash your boss over a carafe ofhouse wine (since your expense account is no more, alas).

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At 6 pm join the hordes jumping into the waters of the Rhine at Schaffhauserrheinweg 93 and let the current carry you all the way to the Johanniter Bridge. rheinsdrwimmen.crr

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Crave the feeling of sand under your feet? Head for the hills of Gstaad.

For this exciting event, the tennis club's Center Court is transformed into a volleyball arena. Top athletes come from all over the world to com' pete, and the village gets into the spirit with an all-out beach atmosphere and various beach parties.

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ing media images, societal pressures and cultural influences will affect and "remodel" your body image throughout your life. Attractiveness, success and fulfllment are not just about how you look on the out-

side. It's true that true beauty comes from within-someone who is able to acknowledge both their strengths and weaknesses and who is continually

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realistic you.

yourself

You are usually your harshest critic. You need to focus on

your strengths, not your weaknesses. What do you like about your body? Focusing on these positives will help to increase your body confidence. Practice some positive affirmations (words of encouragement focusing on things that you like about your body) when you look in the mirror.

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through make-up, a new haircut, clothing and accessories.

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Signs that your negative body image may be a problem: You avoid situations such as shopping for new clothes, going to the gym, going swimming or having sex because you feel uncomfortable.

You feel shameful, em' barrassed or unhappy when you think about your body.

You begin to develop obsessive diet or exercise patterns.

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with one's body can lead to unhelpful thinking pattems ("We11, since I already don't like my stomach/thighs/fill in the blank, I may as well eat that extra chocolate, drink those extra glasses of red wine...").

This type ofthinking only exacerbates the problem. Instead, focus your energy on eating more healthily, finding time to exercise, quitting smoking, or drinking less. If you're thinking negatively about your stomach, do some cntnches. Take up a new activity that you enjoy.

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You can't undo these experiences, but ifyou can identify them you may be able to influence or replace some of the negative ones. Maybe you've had a partner who didn't care for small breasts or big bottoms or skinny legs, but in fact there are many people who prefer these qualities. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder; work on seeing yourself through the eyes of someone who sees

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"She's the image of her grandmotherl" "He looks just like you did at that age!"

Right from the beginning of life, the whole family searches for references to understand who this little baby might be, and we do that very largely from how the infant looks. Ofcourse, at this early stage, the baby doesn't have any idea ofwho she is or how he appears-self-image comes along much later.

This occurs at about age 18 months to z years, when a child is able to point to his chest and proudly exclaim "ME!" Psychologist Michael Lewis famously tested this by putting a spot of rouge on the noses of babies and toddlers from age 9 months to 2 years, and then showing them a mirror.

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Ianguage, such as "Boy" or"My shoe." This is a time when they wiII echo back features about themselves that they hear adults say, so it is important that parents are aware of hidden values in their descriptions. "Clever girl" and "big boy" are fine, but every time a toddler hears "pretty girl" or"Here comes trouble!" there's a chance that these statements will begin to form the self-image the child will continue to carry in later life. Toddlers also develop their self-image by comparing themselves to parents and by imitation. So your toddler is shaping his idea of himself every time he copies you-when he is pretending to cook, or unfortunately, also when he is trying out those bad words he overhears.

Around the World There are two main ways of defining the self across different countries and cultures: One is associated more with Amedcan, Australian and some European cultures and could be described as "Individualist."

These families place greater emphasis on the characteristics of each child and encourage children to be separate individuals, to describe themselves as special and unique.

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Research investigating the self-concept of older adolescents revealed these cultural differences, even ifthe teenagers lived away from the family country of origin.

Thus teenagers from more Western cultures used individualist phrases like,,I am honest" or "I am more ofa doer than a thinker, " whereas Asian teenagers described themselves using social/relational attributes such as,,I am a student,, or"I am a good son."

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this process ofworking it aII out. The time factor means that it is an important self-concept building skill to realize that

you are the same person two years ago (or even last week, for children under 3).

This gives each child a sense of continuity, of "ongoingness."

Self-image can also be strengthened when a child is helped to make those social references which tell you both how you are similar to those around you, and how you can be different. How does your child see himself in relation to other children? To adults? To people of different habits? In the global world of today, perhaps it is helpful for children to develop a self-concept that embraces both approaches.

want them to feel confi.dent in themselves, and believe they have an opinion that will be listened to. And at the same time, we want them to feel they belong to communities to which they must relate.

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VILLAGE CAMPS Rue de la Moräche 74, 7260 Nyon

/ T 022 990 9400 / www.villagecamps.com

For sports and activities, exciting challenges, new skills and a whole world of confidence and freedom, look no further than VILLAGE CAMPS-the award-winning leader for Geneva Day Camps and Residential Summer Camps, tailormade with your child in mind!

to 13 years. Some activities

With almost 40 years of service to the community, VILLAGE CAMPS offers a highly respected Day Centre for children age four to 13, conveniently located at the campus of Collöge de Terre Sainte in Coppet. Programmes are specifically designed around a child's need to grow and have fun-with each age group enjoying a perfect match of games and challenges. There are six daily activity periods, plus a weekly barbecue bonanza and a special final day of fun, sport and performance.

The "mini" programme is for four- to six-year-olds, the "junior" programme Jor seven- to nine-year-olds and the "senior" programme for those aged ten

change daily while others are repeated to provide consistency and help children attain goals and objectives through play and competition. With full-day excursions arranged and a range of sports, dance, drama, plus arts & crafts, it isn't surprising that so many children return year after year for a fun-packed summer.

Children enjoy baseball, softball, rugby, soccer, basketball, bowling and even Tchoukball.

Each activity is designed to build and augment leadership and team-building skills. Cooking, sculpture, music, visits to

Each child's welfare is of primary concern with a counselor-to-camper ratio of oneto{ive. There is an on-sile nurse, doctor on call and Nyon Hospital close by. Fees include all activities and facilities, hot lunches, drinks and afternoon snacks. There is also an optional bus service to and from Geneva and the

surrounding area. ln addition to the Day Centre, youngsters from age seven to 18 can enjoy Residential Programmes in Leysin (Switzerland), Beijing (China),

York (England), Ardöche (France), Zell am See (Austria) and Canada (including camps in BC,

Ontario and Ouöbec).

Camps offered include those specializing in tennis, golf, soccer, basketball, riding, languages (English, French, German or lntroduction to Chinese), film, performing arts, creative arts, and leadership (life skills). For complete details of both Day Centre and Residential Camps visit www.villagecamps.com or write or phone for a brochure.

Summer starts here!

local farms-there is a truly

wonderful cornucopia of new and exciting things to do.

Each weekday, from 9 am to

4 pm during a two-week session, children learn new skills, play new games, make new friends and enjoy freedom of expression in a sale and supervised environment that is guaranteed to boost independence and confidence.

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Looking for a fun holiday soccer camp for your children this summer? Or after-school and weekend training sessions that offer a great football challenge? Then lnterSoccer's winning blend of activity and skills for boys and girls is certain to be a big hit-and it's the perfect way for youngsters to make new friends! lnterSoccer is a Swiss-based soccer school, run by fullyqualified, experienced coaches. With more than six years of experience in the field, lnterSoccer aims to offer a great soccer experience in a challenging but friendly environment.

Boys and girls of all abili-

ties-aged three to 13-love lnterSoccer's holiday programmes, as well as its extensive lineup of term-time events. Coaching is in English (with French widely spoken and some SwissGerman), and all courses are

held at convenient locations.

Two summer camps in Versoix even run until 5 pm to help working parents with the pick-up. See the lnterSoccer website for great deals and special offers if you book online now!

When children arrive at an lnterSoccer session they are carefully grouped according to age and ability. This helps them to improve ball skills and enjoy team play at all levels.

Children aged three to five love Mini Soccer Camp, which offers mornings-only sessions, while older ones can join full-day Junior Camps

Through a structured programme of fun, games and training, lnterSoccer creates a safe environment where children are happy to play and learn. lt also provides a healthy outdoor activity that they will enjoy year after year, increasing conf idence, introducing new challenges and encouraging new friendships.

Check out lnterSoccer's specialist term-time courses for goalkeepers, its unique Girls Soccer programme plus Mini Soccer (ages three to six), Saturday Fun Footie (ages

(ages five to nine). Those

aged ten to 13 will enjoy new challenges at lnterSoccer's Academy Camps. And every Friday in Versoix there's a treat in store.... Check out Fab Fridays for multi-sports action.

Holiday courses are held in Geneva and Versoix, plus Gland, Lausanne, Vevey, Basel, Bern, Zug and Zurich.

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five to seven), Fun Tournaments, School Coaching and the Saturday Soccer League. Go on-score a winning goal with your family and lnterSoccer!

For details of all lnterSoccer summer camps, weekly coaching programme and after-school activities go to www.intersoccer.ch.

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INTERNATIONAT UNIVERSITY IN GENEVA (IUG) Route de Pr6-Bois 20, 1215 Geneva / T 022 710 7110 / www.iun.ch The lnternational University in Geneva

(lUG) offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the areas of Business Administration, lnternational Relations and Media and Communication. IUG was again selected this year among the ten best business schools in Switzerland by EDUNIVERSAL.

AII classes are held in English, with several starting dates during the year.

Undergraduate programs start in January,

April and September while graduate students join in December, March, June and September.

IUG has educational links and exchange programs with several universities, including Tulane University, USA, ESIC in Madrid, Spain and ISC in Paris, France and Thammasat, Thailand, among others. ln November 2009, the University was granted a new accreditation by ACBSP.

ST GEORGE'S SCHOOT TN SWITZERLAND Clarens/Ivlontreux, T 021 964 3411 / Neuch채tel, T 0327241940 / vuww.st-georges.ch

With a renowned tradition for excellence and open-mindedness-St George's School in Switzerland is the only Britishstyle co-ed international school offering day schooling, full boarding or a unique weekly boarding programme. Some 450 students from 40 nationalities follow successful IGCSE, lB or High School Diploma courses and enjoy small teaching groups and individual attention.

Founded on the ideals of sound learning, appreciation of natural beauty and international good will, St George's welcomes pupils from three to 18 years at Clarens, Neuch채tel and Verbier. Students are happy to achieve their academic potential in a secure and creative environment, with structured pastoral care, a wide range of sports, career advice plus fascinating extracurricular & cultural activities.

Looking for fun boarding or day camps for ten to 16s? Check out St George's Summer Camps: entertaining July/August programmes featuring languages, sport and culture.

See website for details of St George's School in Clarens, Neuch채tel and Verbier.

Plus Summer Camps.

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ECOLE.CLUB MIGROS T 022 379 61 61 / vvvtrwecole-club.ch Learning French at Ecole-club Migros means joining a strong and efficient tradition of foreign language learning, with more than 60 years' experience of opening up new horizons. Ecole-club Migros also offers a dedicated schedule for English-speakers, M-lnternational Programme, where all courses are taught in English. Learn to draw, become

a master cook or discover how to take amazing photos. Simply decide on your goals and let Ecole-club Migros, with its broad range of recreational courses, help you achieve them.

Excited about yoga or speaking French, German or ltalian, studying Art History, handicrafts or art? At Ecole-club Migros

wishes can come true with day, evening and Saturday classes. All teachers are highly motivated and qualified experts and the lively learning environment is relaxed, yet stimulating. Acquire and develop new skills, make new friends and establish new contacts! Ecole-club Migros courses are reasonably priced with no hidden extras. Why not give it a try?

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Free study resources on iTunes and OpenLearn are just two new initiatives from the Open University-he world's most successful distance learning university. More than 200,000 students enjoy the OU's innovative teaching and materials and the OU Business School is the world's largest MBA provider with triple accreditation (AACSB, EOUIS, AMBA).

OU distance learning in English is supportive and flexible, and more than

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INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DE LANCY Avenue Eugene-Lance 24,7272 Grand-Lanry, Geneva / T 022794 2620 / www.üI.ch

With a proud tradition of educational excellence, The lnstitut lnternational de Lancy in Geneva now offers a comprehensive English programme from preschool to sixth form.

Mr. Norbert Foerster, Director at lll, emphasizes the fact that children benefit from daily exposure to different languages.

At the school, respect for cultural diversity is promoted through English and Frenchtwo of the most recognised international languages-thus

uniting the students and teaching staff, who together represent over 8O different nationalities.

English Primary and Secondary classes closely follow the National Curriculum of England and Wales, which allows Secondary students to prepare for their Cambridge University IGCSE examinations in Year 1 1. The English programme includes French as a Second Language at a level to suit each student. llL is also an lB World School

offering the lnternational Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Years 12 and 13 (ages 16-19). ln order to be accepted into the English Section, students are required to have been previously educated in English.

The French Section (ages 318) also places great emphasis on learning English and students have the possibility of following cefiain subject options in English. llL prepares the children for Cambridge and Trinity College examinations and students with a high level of English may follow IGCSE courses.

The French Section prepares students for the French Baccalaureate and Swiss College entry.

The lnstitut lnternational de Lancy has a convenient loca-

tion with attractive grounds and a welcoming atmosphere.

Formerly Collöge MarieThöröse, the school has a unique and prestigious

tradition of academic excellence and innovation. Sporting activities and an exciting extracurricular programme challenge and inspire each student.

Founded in 1903, the campus today houses the latest facilities and technology, including three ICT suites, two gymnasiums and a modern cafeteria.This year the lnstitut lnternational de Lancy inaugurates new additions to its facilities: two high-tech science laboratories to complement the two already in place.

The lll school day ends with an option for supervised homework that extends until 6 pm. Activity programmes are scheduled on Wednesday afternoons and in school holidays.

For further information or to arrange a personalised visit, please contact the school and discover for yourself the warm and studious environment.

ASC INTERNATIONAT HOUSE Rue de Lausanne 72, 1202 Geneva

/T 022731 8520 / wvvw.asc-ih.ch

Geneva Secondary School opened its doors in September 2009 as part of ASC lnternational House, known for its progressive, innovative language teaching since 1974. Aimed at students aged 'l 1 to 16, it follows the English National Curriculum (Key Stages 3 & 4) leading up to IGCSE examinations. With a maximum class size of 16, the school offers affordable English private education (CHF 1 2900 per year) for mother tongue and non-mother tongue students. All classes are taught in beautiful purpose-built premises in Chetelaine, Geneva, just two minutes from the motorway. For more information and contact details visit wwwgsschool.ch or call O22 795 751O.

Geneva Secondary School is the natural stepping-stone to the British A-Level programme-an alternative path to university.

The A-level College, which opened in 2005, offers a two-year, full-time course for Anglophone students aged 1 6 and above, aiming to enter university in the UK, the EU or Switzerland. Taught in groups of maximum 10 and closely monitored by qualified staff, students can maximize their learning potential. Full-time tuition fees start from CHF 12,900 per annum and all classes are taught on the Geneva Secondary School premises.

programme for children aged 7 to 19this programme is run in partnership with

For those living in the Pays de Gex,

For more details of any of the above programmes visit www.asc-ih.ch.

France, ASC offers a bilingual school

lnstitution Jeanne dArc in Gex. For more details contact bev.dubuisson@asc-ih.ch.

All of the above programmes are owned/run by ASC lnternational House, Geneva's leading language school. With two centres in Geneva and a large teaching centre in Vevey, ASC offers private and corporate language training in 1 1 languages. ln addition ASC also offers recognized teacher qualifications for English and French.

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Kienast and was invited to work in his studio as the first staff collaborator after he graduated in 1982.

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gangway reached by stairs. And all of the posts and wires are covered by a huge variety of climbing

plants. The structure is bright and welcoming, open to the sky, and the ciimbers i-ielp to make the

building feel very natural and green. Raderschall worked with another landscape firm, Burckhardt

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Partner, and steel cable manufacturers that create this super-green facade.

The Vision couldn't even see the park when the competition to win the commission was launched as the original building was still there. But "it was just a fantastic space," Raderschail says, "an idle, industrial room, flooded by light and empty. We thought about doing something like that. Having a huge room that is good for end use but that is basically just a beautiful space."

The team

They wanted to create something in the same scaie as the previous building and those around it, but covered with green plants. "We wanted MFO-Park to sit in there like one of these surrounding buildings, but of course with a totally different use .

This hybrid, it's a house and it's not a house. It's a room, it's got walls, it's got a roof, but it rains

inside and birds fly through it."

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themselves onto walls, and are not suitable for climbing up cables. The initial plan was for a limited plant palette of only three or four different plant varieties, but this was quickly abandoned when they considered the three

polluted.

Solution: They carefully studied the integration of how the structure touches the ground and the sizes of the gaps between the hardscape elements, keeping in mind that the site needed to be accessible from all sides. Enormous quantities of polluted soil had to be removed and replaced.

different facades with different exposure and the differing requirements of the plants on the inside and the outside of the facade.

Solution: Instead the team worked with plant producers to create a kind of living plant laboratory of all the climbers available on the market at the time. At 17 metres high, it was clear that plants of differing heights would be required in each planting hole: small (under 3 metres), medium

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Then & Now Raderschall is still passionate about the capabilities of climbers. "Climbers are really fantastic plants.

You've got all different kinds ofleaves. You've got hardy ones and evergreen ones, with all sorts of different flowers on them and many of them have a very nice scent. After all, they also need very little space on the ground, but they can grow up to 40 metres taII. You can guide them with your wirework and have them where you want them."

A yearly update follows the fate of the plants. If they die, they are only replaced twice. So far, the wisteria and roses are doing particular§ well, but some of the clematis varieties have not been quite so success-

ful. Raderschall and his team expect that this process of elimination will whittle down the original r3o

plant varieties to something more like 30 or 40.

In the meantime, the living plant laboratory is of great interest to professional growers, other architects, and anyone planning to plant some climbers.

Every plant is well labelled and you can find plenty :

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'A garden is a mirror image of the personality.

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'According to the situation I use different materials. The most important things in a garden are the plants and the knowledge about their properties and uses."

Proudest Design Moments

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A marvelous, Mediterranean garden as a

stage for unusual architecture. Work

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speciflc requirements and perfectly embedded in the garden's surroundings. . . are characterized by generousness, simplicity and elegance.. .bring together function and aesthetics to form a creative whole,"

lnfluences "Modem art, colour design, architecture

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Proudest Design Moments

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Show Carden: "Colours of the South" Coloured concrete, influenced by Mexican

modem architecture.

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Show Garden: "Ode to the summer" Inspired by (the form of) ovals.

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Private Carden: "Flower Rooms"

contemporary interpretation of the traditional local architectural style

ofthe early 19oos.

a gardener, studied as a

horticulture engineer with {ocus on planting use and landscape design, teaching assignments at different educational establishments in planting knowledge and garden design, expert for masiership examination

by Jardin Suisse.

Lives: Rapperswil-Jona (SG), Offices in Horgen (ZH) and Fislisbach (AG).

Mode of Transport: Car, railway, plane.

Essential Kit: Transparency paper and blue felt-tip Pen, iree mind for ideas.

Won't Leave Home

Without:

Family, hidden places in the garden or nature.

Contact Gartenideen www.gardens.ch Office: Oberdorfstrasse 33, Horgen, T 044 780 87OB Office & Showgarden: Bernardastrasse 40, Fislisbach T 056 470 3076

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Age:38 Born: in Switzerland to an English mother and Swiss lalher

Ciardina Awards: zoo4 Cold, zoos Silver, zoo6 Cold, zoog Silver.

Trainingr Studied Garden and Landscape Design in London at the lnchbald School of Design; Psychology and Public Health in Zurich, Bern and Basel.

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Keeping the Romansh alive Bad« in March, a fresh-faced politician representing Geneva

at the Federal Palace in Bern came up with an idea to improve communication between the different language regions.

By Conor Lennon

But what would that language

English, Esperanto or (my favourite)

be? Hodgers proposed

Switzerland's founh national language: Romansh.

was warmly welcomed in the

cantonal capital, Chur. It was a great experience; I got to meet many colleagues, musicians, fllmmakers, artists and

philosophers, all of whom work in their native language.

Some listeners may remember

that I got all over-enthusiastic and decided Romansh was the language forme. Some made the observation (not entirely unreasonable, in reuospect) that it might be more useful to learn, well, a language that people actual§ speak.

idiom. Romansh speakers will tell you they resent efforts to introduce RG in kindergartens and (the topography again) that they feel no affinity to any kind of "pan-Romansh" nation. Instead they identify with their village and, at a

push, theirregion.

t Francophone Antonio Hodgers said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that French and ltalian speakers flnd it very hard to communicate with Swiss-Cerman speakers because of the multitude of flercely guarded dialects. one ofhis ideas for solving the problem is to nominate just one national language and relegate all the others to regional languages.

gramme presenters will speak

proudly and resolutely in their

literature, and there are significant differences between them. Vallader is the language ofthe Lower Engadine, Puter ofthe Upper Engadine (the region which contains

Saint-Moritz), Surselva covers the west of Graubünden, in Disentis and environs, Sutselvan in the Thusis area and finally Surmiran in central Craubünden. They are all closely related to vulgar Latin

but the topography (this is, after all, the canton of 15o valleys) conspired to create enough differences to ensure a speaker

ofVallader finds a

But Lia Rumantscha insists the new standardised form is the way to keep the culture alive.

It is

RG that has become the fourth national (and quasi-official, meaning some but not all

government documents are translated into RG) language.

And it is RC that is taught at my local university. The flrst half of the weekly lessons is devoted to RG language and grammar, the second half to socio-linguistics, or "Romansh as it's spoken" which bears little or no relation to the first half. So I'm essentially speaking a language no one writes or speaks, not even native Romansh. This may seem perverse, but I have to admit this is part ofthe attraction.

But the lack of Romansh

Surselvan speaker completely

Romansh, eh? Only o.5z of the population are believed to be fluent in this little-known lan-

speakers in Geneva didn't put me off. Surely, leaming the language would help me to get

incomprehensible.

guage; however, it does have a few things going for it:

to the nub of"Swissness"?

andyou come up with, according to best estimates, around

I spoke to Romanshophone author and philosopher Iso

60,000 speakers. Add to this the fact that every Romansh

Camartin about m]4 dilemma when he came into our studios this spring. He told me to stick with it: If you're curious about the oldest indigenous Swiss culture, RG is the best way in.

For example,

it

is a genuinely

Swiss Romance language

which doesn't exist anywhere else. It's spoken by the mountain people of Craubünden, which is even the home of Heidi, for goodness' sake.

There's even a national, z4l7 radio station broadcasting in Romansh (Radio Rumantsch) and a daily TV news bulletin in the language, shown on the main Swiss Broadcasting Corporation channels.

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in

Switzerland, it isn't that simple. And I'm talking from experience. A couple of years ago I took The Wrap to Graubünden for a week and go ONAIR summer2olo

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and memorised some words and simple phrases. No problem. Then I signed up for a language and literatur_e course at the local university. Easy.

Then came the slow realisation that I might have been better

offwith Esperanto, and not just because more people speak

it.

There isn't just one Romansh.

There are, in fact, flve recog-

nised "idioms" of Romanshand don't you dare go calling them dialects. They are distinct languages, each with its own written form and body of

Cather all the idioms together

speaker needs to be

fully

conversant in both High German and Swiss-German to survive and you can understand why Lia Rumantscha (liarumantscha.ch), the body set up to protect and promote the language is concerned about

its future.

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1982,

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created another language, called Rumantsch Grischun (or "Craubünden Romansh"), otherwise known as RC.

Romansh speakers will be pleased to hear you attempt to speak (a form of) the language and you can communicate with anyone from Savognin to Scuol. In fact, they might end up using you as an interpreter! o

Unfortunately Romansh speakers don't like to speak, write or engage

with Rumantsch

Grischun. If you listen to Radio Rumantsch, the news will be read in Rc but aU the pro-

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The Poet and the iournalist I became a journalist before becoming a poet. At least

"real" poems didn't emerge until l had already spent more than a decade working in media.

By Carla Drysdale

At 16, like many of us, I wrote some mediocre, if not awful poems as part of a high school assignment. But my English teacher thought they were good enough to send out to a poetry contest. They didn't win. They weren't even runners-up. Her response to this failure was, "Well, yours were so good I can't imagine what the others must have written." And that probably helped keep me writing, albeit in secret, over the next few years.

one does is to make a small machine out of words that re-creates the same feeling

My secret buming within was simply an inexplicable urge to write. I didn't understand it or even question it. It just was (and still is). I didn't grow up surrounded by writers. I was the flrst in my family to go to university, and for me, it was journalism school in Toronto. It seemed the Iogical choice, given my love of words and stories, and the need to understand the world around me by asking questions.

It would be a year and half before Molly and I actually met in person. Our correspondence was of the old-fashioned mentoring kind, through snail mail. I sent her my stabs at making poems, and we discussed them by telephone. Since then, I've

journalism career unfurled, flrst writer and editor in magazines, then joumalist, producer and presenter in As my

how do I reconcile my double life as

poet and journalist? After all, as Stanley

Kunitz, twice-appointed United states

place." That's what I wanted to do. To discover, express and connect through making art. Thus I made my way, by calling people up and asking questions, to the American poet Molly Peacock's voicemail. When she called me back, from her New York City to my Bern, I was a little

poet laureate said: "The poet is an anomaly our culture. The goal of our culture is

tongue-tied.

been to graduate school in NewYork to

study poetry, gotten married and had kids, and flnally had my flrst book of poems published. I still entrust my poems to Molly's poetic divining rod.

money and power. And that's not exactly what poetry is about. What is it about?

That's a hard question. It's about anything the human mind and unconscious can produce. And that's infinite."

For me, the poet and the journalist have worked out a deal: They feed each other.

The journalist puts food on the table for the poet to eat. And the poet is entertained, even fed and inspired by the

journalist's work. o Carla Drysdale's first book of poems, wa s publishedby Tightrope

Little Venus,

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Poems are not news stories, and yet they are news. Announcements from the inte-

radio, I pretty much forgot about poetry as a thing to seriously pursue. In my twenties I was busy exploring the world and its people though my work as a journalist.

rior, sometimes commenting on the exte-

private place-my journal-to work out my thoughts about what was happening in my life.

still needed

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event, truth telling, lucid communication and some digging and revising to get things dght. But whereas joumalists are accustomed to working in the din of newsroom clatter and chatter, writing a poem requires deep listening in a non-distracted state. In a sense, it's like eavesdropping in on the continuous stream ofan inner radio broadcast. The delicious hum is always there, barely audible and underneath everything else. It's the tuning-in parr that's hard.

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Then one day in my early thirties, I experienced a sort of emotional volcanic eruption. The catalyst was the ending of an important relationship. Breaking up is always hard to do, but this one catapulted me into a radical rethinking of possibilities for my life. To an urgency to write real poems, to dare to think that I could write them and to try to flnd real poets who could guide me in the endeavor. To quote poet Stephen Dobyns: "One writes when one is unable to remain silent, and what

rior, they are news of ideas and feelings made into line, verse, rhythm and rhyme.

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journaiists must also have a sense and understanding of society in order to shed light on it. Poets and journalists

Leap This evening I linger in their room Ionger than usual, resist my impulse to get out, away from them, to peace and privacy. lnstead I yield to the buttery nightlight shadows, take in the room.

My hand scratches his lean, bare back.

When he says, "Mom, move your fingers apartl'there's a little leap in me, glad he knows how to ask precisely for what he wants, as we lie there.

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Random musings on the matter of image It was the first thing you noticed, even before you got within reading distance of it. Some sloppy someotl'" had slapped a crude advert on the side of a car, thoroughly askew. The info was sloping, the sloppiness very much at odds with the message-from a home cleaning outfit: We Make Your Home Sparkle.

With the same care and attention to detail you've applied to affixing that lame marketing pitch to your car, your first chance at impressing me? The vehicle was that little bit grubby too. Mine's worse just now, in deep need of a car wash massage. But, hey ho, I'm promising no one to make their home glisten for a few dozen francs an hour.

The cleaning firm's mixed message was a car crash as far as imagebuilding goes. And when it's a service industry competing for my business, I expect more.

But I part company with the unsettling fixation on image we in the West seem to be foisting on ourselves these days, to varying degrees. As a teenager and lor far too many years beyond, I too suffered an extreme obsession with body image-starving for weeks to ensure concave tum and chiselled hips and over-exercising in the days of high-impact aerobic manoeuvres.

The Irustrating by-product of all that craziness? Busted knees-two operations down alread5and a sluggish metabolism that seems resistant to all natural attempts to push it into a higher gear, Many of us seem to learn far too late in life that Mum and Dad were

right: What stands you in best stead throughout your daily travels and travails is how you are, how you behave, not how you package and proclaim yourself.

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lmage is so much less about the cut of your biceps and the cost of your

clobber/ home/car. lt's about being a loyal friend/partner, a reassuring presence all the

time, wherever you are, whatever happens, consistent, reliable, caring.

And, at the very least, being genuine in your dealings with people.

Anyway, as you get older, it becomes harder to defend self-serving myths of your own creation.

Now's the perfect time to refer back to the title of this little piece.

Profundity was never promised.

Only random, stream-of-consciousness musings.

When I suffered the loss of my dearly beloved a few years back, I reinvented my professional self in a devil-may-care, life-is-short nanoinstant. And I, oddly, enjoyed the immediate, deliberate loss of my professional identity.

My "image'took quite a hit when ljacked in my hard-won, faux-glam career as a TV presenter and reporter for a job as a property

developer-"demon speculator' to many.

I

forced steel joints-was my low-budget ticket to the world of architecture and design.

I

adored picking

my way through

the dusty ruins of stripped-out houses, whizzing around fittings and fixtures showrooms admiring the groove of a bathtub faucet and the style of floor tile. Getting to make all the design choices was superb. Hard-core journo friends were aghast.'Yes, you've always loved architecture and design Susan; we're all obsessed with property (l was, after all, living in property bubble London), but-shock, horror-you can't be serious, a property speculator?'

It was as if I'd declared my intention to start pitching the nation's grannies off those famous white cliffs of Dover. There was no career choice more questionable, no breed of besuited hordes more reviled than those doing property deals. Save politicians and journaF ists, lthought, recalling a poll that put all three professional groups at the top of the most-hated, leasttrusted charts. I neglected to draw attention to the fact l'd been a political correspondent in Canada.

Strike three for me.

cared nol a bit. I had long

harboured an unfulfilled ambition to be an architect. But I could never see a way of jumping off the earning train to study for the requisite seven years plus. There was also the pesky reality of my limited aptitude for calculus and trigonometry.

So having a hand in deciding

which load-bearing walls to smash down-l now know a lot about rein-

There were more dropped jaws a few months later when I added 'furniture designer'to my business card. I learned not to invite judgments from just about all I encountered by glossing over my first career in TV newsland.

The property and furniture manufacturing folk couldn't believe I no longer got a buzz out of being on the telly. Only other designers understood why I'd trade formu-

laic creativity with words and pictures for their brand of similar but different, more tangible, longer-lasting than news reports of 2-minutes-30.

The takeaway for me after sampling a couple more professional hats over my years away from broadcasting, was simple: Suit yourself, image and perception of same be damned. As long as your moral compass is still firmly in place, who cares what others think? In huth, they don't really care what you're wearing or doing anyway. They are far too involved with their own lives.

Back to hats. I'll relish inviting more insta-judgments, setting more tongues wagging, when I become the protagonist in one of my favourite poems. lt's called Warnrng by Jenny Joseph. Copyright restrix prevent me from printing it here but it's a snap to find on the web. lt's a wistful rejection of conformity from a woman who longs for the day when she can do whatever she wants, when she's old.

She dreams of wearing a purple cardigan with a red hat that doesn't suit her, of spending her pension on brandy and satin sandals, gobbling samples in food shops and racing round pressing alarm bells.

It ends with her musing that per-

haps that level of gleeful abandon and complete disregard of what others might think might best be achieved by practising a little now, when she's still young: So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised. When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

I'm halfway there; already have a red hat, lovely beret, and I'm sure it won't be long before lfind a suitably clashing purple cardigan. Let the practising continue. a

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Your place in the.tree. Career rising or falling? Is yourjob hell on a stick or a source of constant delight? (If it is let me know where you work.) I don't need to be a psychologist to tell you that self-image and job

satisfaction are entwined.

Competence: Are you good or

lousy at what you do? I've been OK at some jobs, and crummy at others. Try as I might, I can't help but carry this awareness around with me.

Money. Do I need to go into speciflcs here? When it comes to bolstering your self-image a bit of liquidity can't hurt.

So,

if somuchof ourimageis

tied up in our work, where does the winding nature of the modem career path lead us? If you are zo and entering thejob market, you can expect to change jobs at least nine times in your working life. At least three of those changes will be radical. That's not the same as it was even a generation ago.

very flt and strongbut did nothing for my manners (just

askmyMum).

Similarly, when I set up the caf6, I have to admit I felt the smug satisfaction of the petit bourgeois when it flnally became clear that the business was going to survive beyond the next rent payment. Hey, I was an entrepreneur! One of the worst the world has ever known but by golly,

there I was.

"You might say to yourself: Who cares what I do, and what people think about what I do. Nice try but for others looking to do some quick pigeon-holing, your occupation is key" a major climb down when I had to don a suit and

It felt like Hands up if you've everbeen in this situation: You're at a party making small talk with someone you don't know. After exchanging the usual "...so how do you know Bill then?" there's a pause and, you know it's coming: "So what do you do?"

What they don't say is: "Been eating any carrots then?"

The simple fact is

that, in our

society, whatjob you have is a key for others in deciding who you are. In a perfect world you have something a bit cool to teU

them. You might be a cow-

boy or a monk, or maybe you run an empire. On the other

hand, it might be something a tad less s端eet cred (I met someone just the other day who worked for a major Swiss Bank, "pafttime!" he quickly added.) Either way, people are going to ask and you are going to have to give them an answer. And be rated accordingly.

with

(My favourite all-time answer to this question was given to me by a dissolute blue blood

from the UK, who was, in the metric of measuring these things, more than ro steps away from lhe Throne but less than roo. "Do?" she said, genuinely puzzled, "We11, t spend fourmonths here in Chelsea and the rest in other places.")

You might say to yourself: Who cares what I do, and what people think about what I do. Nice try, but for others looking to do some quick pigeon-holing, your occupation is key.

oK, you might say, so that's them and you're you. I don't buy it; our self-image is in part created by what others think of us. Or what we think they think of us. What's more, in all sorts ofsubtle and not-so-subtle ways, how we eam our daily bread shapes who we are. There are your colleagues: be they car salesmen or calligraphers, beggars or builders. You spend up to a third of your waking hours with them and the exchanges you make with them are going to be

influential.

Well, I'm not zo but I am the poster boy for radical career

changes. In chronological order I have been employed or selfemployed or just hung around

farm hand and tractor driver; wool presser (making bales of wool from freshly as a

shorn fleeces); assistant housemaster at a posh boarding school; fundraiser for Greenpeace; toll collector on the Sydney Harbour Bridge; graffiti remover for public trains; student; caf6 owner; unemployed wasuel; travel agent; corporate trainer; home-maker and a radio presenter. It's not the full list but in there I count my quota ofthree radical career changes already. Maybe four.

While I had them, some of these jobs were very much tied up with my self-image. Wool pressing was hot and difficult

work that made me stink like a sheep's armpit, but I loved the "honest toil" as only a graduate who didn't expect to face a lifetime of back-breaking manual labour can. It also got me

head into a soulless office to help other, richer people with

their travel plans. The company did all it could to make you feel that the world swooned at the feet oftravel agents, but somehow I always knew better.

And then, pinch me I'm dreaming, I'll be damned if I'm not a broadcaster working in the humanitarian capital of ' the world. For me, that has the party credibility t've always hungered for.

But then, a funny thing happened. Since starting with WRS, I've had two terrific children. Now, I have another opening gambit at parties.

People can and do ask ifyou have kids, and then they might ask if I have a photo.

My phone has 329 photos of my family in it and I say to them: "Well, as it happens, I do have one or two. How long have you

ifwe never get to talking about my work, well, that's oK with me. o got?" And,

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have never tried to create one. Switzerland is in fact a country which to all intents and purposes shouldn't exist. A small nation of less than eight mi[ion people,

derstand the people in the next valley?

This focus on local identity is irritating to

speaking four national languages.

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One of the competitions involved a famous footballer arriving on stage, looking rather well-padded, wearing the football jerseys of all 3z teams competing in this year's World Cup. As he took them offone by one, his teammates-professional spofts men and women all-had to gUess which countries they represented. The ansfvers came thick and fast: Korea, Honduras, Cameroon, Slovenia-all were recogrised.

Libya's Colonel Gaddafl has famously argued that Switzerland should be divided up and the resulting portions retumed to the countries he claimed they rightfully belonged to: Germany, France and ltaly.

Given Europe's bloody history, up to 1945 anyway, that might have been the most logical fate for Switzerland, but somehow that didn't happen. In fact, Switzerland has managed to remain stable and peaceful for over r5o years.

Switzerland's linguistic regions; Frenchspeaking Swiss are frustrated to spend years leaming High German in school, only to arrive in Bern or Zurich to frnd a very different Language is the norm.

Iust one provoked frowns of confusion.

Iust one remained at the end, forlom, unrecognised and unclaimed.

How has it achieved this? Partly, I think, because there is no national identity.

This isn't such a problem when things are going well for Switzerland, but it is when the Swiss need friends. The last u months have been a harsh demonstration of that; in the long row with Libya, no one has really come to the aid of Switzerland. Instead, the European Union scrambled to accommodate Tripoli. In the controversy over banking secrery and tax havens, huge pressure has been brought to bear on Switzerland, rather less on regions which operate similar non-transparent fi.nancial practices (the state ofDelaware, parts of

Yes, you're

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national team's red strip wasn't identified by anyone; a sign, perhaps, of just how little recognised, misunderstood even, Switzerland is by the rest of the world.

The Swiss

I have always felt that Switzerland is, more than most countries, defined by a series of clich6s and stereotypes. What does the average non-Swiss person know about this country? Cheese, chocolate,

watches, mountains, banks. And about the Swiss themselves? Punctual, obsessed with hygiene, lacking a sense of

humour, boring.

Now it's true that there are plenty of stereotypes about other nationalities too, but somehow the Swiss ones seem to be more powerful, more all-pervasive.

think,

is that the swiss, despite an almost pathological desire to know what the rest of the world thinks about them, have neverbeen that interested in having a national identity-and

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time to time, a source of division between

Think about it: what kind of national

identity could the Swiss

have? Stressing the Cermanic side would upset the francophones, giving the Romands an advantage would offend the Ticinese. And so the Swiss built a stable nation by creating a very decentralised, diverse country, in which all languages are equal, and individual cantons and communities have far more power than the federal govemment,

But while this works very well at home, it really doesn't help Switzerland's image abroad. No particular brand is projected, no concept of switzerland or the Swiss has been marketed to the world.

And, quite frankly, I don't think the Swiss are capable of it. Most swiss people, when asked where they come from, don't say Switzerland, they give you the name of

But above all, the emphasis on a local identity rather than a national one means that the rest of the world gets those clich6s about Switzerland-cheese, chocolate, watches, banks-and very little else.

the city oflondon).

But what else should the Swiss expect?

Ifyou don't try to project yourselfto the outside world, if you stubbomly refuse to join the clubs everyone else is joining (the European Union and for a long time the United Nations as well) then it should hardly be a surprise that some nations

don't recognise you, some don't understand you, and some, well, just don't like

their home town.

youverymuch.

In the majority German-speaking region,

So yes, I

dozens ofdifferent dialects are spoken.

And far from this being seen as a potential source of division, it is generally a source of pride. In what other country would you find the locals boasting that they can't un-

think it might be a good idea to try to do something about Switzerland's image. It might be wise to try to sell some concept ofnational identity to the reยงt of the world...but I can't for the life of me think how the Swiss would do it. o

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