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...separatists Russia says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests at a British banker's 50th birthday party at a ch?teau in the south of France were surprised when "a very special guest" came on stage to play guitar - Tony Blair, with his shirt raffishly unbuttoned. Blair, who played in a band at Oxford called Ugly Rumours, belted out vintage rock 'n' roll...
...Borer, a lawyer by training, is putting his talents to use in his new career as a Berlin-based investment banker and lobbyist. Swiss, the national airline that replaced the bankrupt Swissair, has just hired him as a consultant in a bid to revamp its image. An interesting choice, considering all that Borer has personally done to shake up his country's staid reputation...
...everything from Argentina's economic collapse to the merits of a strong dollar has roiled markets around the world and cost him the limited clout he had on the Street. "It's not that he's bad, and it's not that he's dumb," says a New York banker who attended a meeting with O'Neill last week. "It's just that he has no gravitas. And once you lose it, you can't get it back." O'Neill's habit of being out of the country during times of economic turmoil has led even some Republicans to call...
...level of Saudi participation in Sept. 11, the country seethes with open loathing for the U.S. and sympathy for bin Laden's cause. Signs of anti-Western militancy are rife throughout this vast kingdom, from the capital, Riyadh--where in June separate car bombs blew up a British banker outside his home and nearly killed an American expatriate--to Abha, a remote mountain city in the southern province of Asir, where four of the hijackers were raised and locals still celebrate all "the Fifteen," as the group is called. "Their friends are really proud of them," says Ghazi al Gamdhi...
...level of Saudi participation in Sept. 11, the country seethes with open loathing for the U.S. and sympathy for bin Laden's cause. Signs of anti-Western militancy are rife throughout this vast kingdom, from the capital, Riyadh-where in June separate car bombs blew up a British banker outside his home and nearly killed an American expatriate-to Abha, a remote mountain city in the southern province of Asir, where four of the hijackers were raised and locals still celebrate all "the Fifteen," as the group is called. "Their friends are really proud of them," says Ghazi al Gamdhi...