2008.Aug.07 Thursday
The absolute neutrality of Switzerland as a political principle is generally dated from the year 1674, when the Federal Diet declared that the Confederation, as a body, would regard itself as a neutral state and intervene on neither side in the war which had just broken out. Edgar Bonjour, Swiss Neutrality, Its History and Meaning [...]
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2008.Aug.05 Tuesday
The people? They are the dust you draw your circles in. THOSE are the people! Sicilians are hopeless. I mean exactly that! Nothing changes here… EVER!” – Abbot Manfredi, in The Sicilian (1987) Buenos Aires – As I mentioned the other day, I found myself walking around Plaza Sicilia, on the chance of sighting a [...]
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