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...next easier?and to offer sanctuary from high estate taxes in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, rules protecting customer confidentiality were strengthened. Divulging private financial information is now punishable by a fine of up to $78,000 and a prison sentence of three years, significantly more draconian than Switzerland's maximum punishment. "You're given an extra measure of confidentiality in Singapore," says Leslie Menkes, a Singapore-based managing director for Morgan Stanley's private-banking...
...week after the aborted terror plot to smuggle liquid explosives aboard planes flying from London to the U.S., the air travel system is still trying to adapt. Some of the most draconian restrictions have been eased, but there's still a lot of confusion over what the rules are. With the end-of-summer travel peak approaching, TIME.com sorts through the latest rules on what you can and can't bring onboard your flight...
...Some of the initial draconian restrictions have now been relaxed, and small carry-on bags are once again being allowed on transatlantic flights. But the new rules permit only carry-on bags that are about half the size of those permitted before last week: no bigger than 45 cm. by 35 cm. by 16 cm. (17.5 in. by 13.5 in. by 6 in.),about the size of a computer bag. In Britain, government officials are considering whether to make this rule permanent...
...Chinese leaders worry that draconian sanctions such as cutting off food and fuel shipments could trigger the regime's collapse, bringing refugees, disease and economic and social disruption to China's northeast. Such fears are well founded, says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. In 1994, China's reduction of rice supplies to the North?part of a previous effort to force Pyongyang to negotiate over its nuclear-weapons program?contributed to a devastating famine. "The famine was the fault of North Korean mismanagement, of course, but it's clear that Chinese actions were the straw that...
...they are right. What I do know is that Presidents in wartime assert that their constitutional responsibility for national security trumps any issue of civil liberties. Often that has meant trampling on them. From John Adams' Sedition Act to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to Woodrow Wilson's draconian Espionage Act to F.D.R.'s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, Presidents have constitutionally overreached. Last week's Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case suggested that Bush had too--although his actions hardly compare with the examples above...