On 10/30/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the past, Switzerland was a lagging, mountainous, mostly rural corner of Western Europe - actually an amalgam of other peoples corners so that they were at the "end of the line" for many changes.
I've never thought of the Swiss as "hillbillies" before. -- Jim Devine / "War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade, / And, to those royal murderers, whose mean thrones / Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore, / The bread they eat, the staff on which they lean." -- Percy B. Shelley
