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...Andréa, a surrealist carousel with flying frogs, bionic spacemen and Jules Verne spaceships. In Rome, the market in the baroque Piazza Navona is worth a visit for its first-rate buskers alone. In Naples, the entire Via San Gregorio Armeno is given over to crèche scenes and figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall). At the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, look out for the procession of white-clad girls bearing candles in honor of St. Lucy (her feast is Dec. 13, the year...
...consultants. That grating sound you hear is the gnashing of Australian teeth. Banking On A Happy Ending This week, time may finally run out for French billionaire François Pinault, the French government and some other top executives in their decade-long legal fight with U.S. prosecutors over Crédit Lyonnais. In the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding foreign banks from acquiring insurers. The two sides have been fighting ever since, and in October, France rejected a $585 million...
...Poles. But with public confidence in the Prime Minister currently at 25%, down from 63% in October 2001 when he took office, Miller faces a tough selling job. - By Tadeusz L. Kucharski and Andrew Purvis Agreeing To Disagree A U.S. judge declared a mistrial in the case against former Crédit Suisse First Boston banker Frank Quattrone. Jurors failed to reach a verdict on charges that he interfered with federal investigations into alleged unfair allocations of shares to clients in 2000. Quattrone could face a second trial...
...says Domenico De Sole, Gucci's chief executive, who insists that he wasn't pressured into the decision. Pinault still has some big legal woes in California to worry about. First, there's a high-profile suit brought by the California Department of Insurance against him and French bank Crédit Lyonnais, alleging that Pinault in the early 1990s made just over $1 billion from an alleged fraud by Crédit Lyonnais involving a failing insurer, Executive Life, and then conspired to hide the true details. Pinault vigorously denies the charges. Second, there's a federal grand jury...
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