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Wagner’s House on Lake Lucerne
Away from the bustle of the lakefront trade across the wide expanse of clouded blue on a small knot of land pushed out into the bay behind a copse of trees down the gravel lane – the house sits small … Continue reading
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Another Volley in the Battle of the Sexes
When I was in Switzerland in 1994, I attended a number of lectures (it was learning abroad thingie through Ohio State University). One of those lectures was from the second in command of the Swiss Army, who said something very … Continue reading