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...cofounded Vision Capital, with offices in Menlo Park, California and in Geneva. The company specializes in helping emerging European companies enter the U.S. market...
...Trying to match European tech firms with American investors gave him the idea for the European Tech Tour Association, a not-for-profit organization based in Geneva and Rotterdam...
...kill the old...nor children and babes nor the females," and is portrayed as appalled to discover a woman's corpse on a battlefield. Similar protections pertain to farmers and tradesmen. Even the slaughter of enemy soldiers is enjoined if no war has been declared. "It's basically the Geneva Convention," says Jamal Badawi, a well-known Islamic interpreter who teaches at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Badawi compares the acts of Sept. 11 to the murder of abortion providers by a Christian gunman who argues that life is sacred...
...lake lay under low gray clouds, emunctory thunder rolling in the distance and the water agitated to a nice "muskie chop," as the judge calls it - good fishing weather. The judge - Judge David H. Brind of Geneva, New York, my father-in-law - pointed the boat S-SW toward the point of Sheer Rock Island. This is the fortieth year that the judge has come to fish for muskies in Elephant Lake; he knows every weedbed and rock, and almost every muskie by name...
...marijuana within five minutes. It's O.K.; the cops here won't arrest you for possessing a little. And it's no different on much of the Continent. Cedric, an 18-year-old Swiss student, smokes dope regularly with his friends on trains, in the streets and parks of Geneva, even during high school recess. "The teachers know about it but don't say anything," he says. In Marseilles two months ago, 20 crewmen on the aircraft carrier Foch had consumed cannabis so flagrantly on board that a military court had to punish them but handed out only suspended sentences...