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Even Switzerland is turning lefty. Am I going to have to move to Wyoming?

I'd hate to leave good old Helvetia. But if things keep on like this, I'll do it with a smile on my face

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issue 02 August 2014

 Gstaad

I am looking out of my window at the green landscape and forested mountains rising beyond, as peaceful a scene as there is in this troubled world, but this is Switzerland, a country that hasn’t fought a war in 700 years, resisting both Napoleon and Hitler through friendly persuasion and by having banks that don’t talk.
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