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| Hermine Speier in the Palazzo Apostolico |
Hermine Speier (1898 to 1989)
In 1934, Hermine Speier became the first female employee in the Vatican in the modern sense of employee with a salary and a pension plan. She wasn’t a nun, and more surprisingly, she wasn’t even Catholic.
Indian President Prathibha Patil on State Visit to Switzerland
Indian President Prathibha Patil has been on a two days state visit in Switzerland. She started the official program of her visit in Bern (seat of the Swiss federal government) and continued through Lausanne to Geneva from where she left for a state visit to Austria.
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| Prathibha Patil and Micheline Calmy-Rey |
Pity the Middleton Family
Many might think that having a Royal Duchess as a daughter must be like a dream come true. The reality is far from that. That being related to a member of the Royal Family resembles more to a nightmare is mainly due to the press and the media.
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| Carole Middleton |
Polanski Prize for Paedophiles
Roman Polanski will return to Zurich to receive a prize for his life work. While the pedophile filmmaker will be holding court to lap up public adulation from fellow pedophiles, Switzerland is powerless to hinder him due to a malfunction in the American legal system.
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| Roman Polanski, pedophile film director |
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