Zurich, the most populous of the cantons, and the heart of the Swiss banking world, plans to start compulsory English at an early age, maybe even from the first class, the six-plus lot.

ECONOMIST: Do you speak English? Jaa, es bitzli

The world in the last six months--I don't remember any time, maybe even the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world.

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