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...CR: You could go across the street to CVS, or 7-Eleven. [Laughs again.] Yeah, no, we don’t have sugar here...
...Bank Leu, Credit Suisse accepted funds totaling $214 million from two of Abacha's sons and failed to check if its customers were prominent political figures, the banking commission said. The other three major offenders were UBP Union Bancaire Privée and the Swiss subsidiaries of France's Crédit Agricole Indosuez and Germany?s M.M. Warburg...
...Claude Trichet, the governor of Banque de France, was expected to take over the E.C.B. when Wim Duisenberg resigns the presidency next July. But the succession was thrown into confusion last week when a French magistrate ordered Trichet to stand trial for his role in the huge losses at Crédit Lyonnais during the 1990s, when it was still state-owned and he headed the French Treasury. Trichet protests his innocence and prosecutors previously recommended dropping the investigation. But because the trial won't begin until at least spring 2003, even an acquittal might not come in time...
...Statue of Liberty. Traboule down from Croix-Rousse to one of the city's bouchons, simple bistros named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers. For a taste of the local gastronomic specialty of cervelles de canut (literally, silk-worker's brains) - fresh white cheese mixed with crème fraîche and herbs - try Garet, Chez Hugon or Le Musée, where the three Laverrière sisters maintain a 40-year family tradition. There's updated fare at the Boeuf d'Argent, Fleur de Sel and Paul Bocuse's three brasseries, Le Nord...
Olympic downhill ski races are unkind to favorites. At Nagano in 1998, Jean-Luc Crétier took advantage of a spectacular crash by Austrian great...