Word: englands
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...squeezing UBS for the names of other clients. More Swiss and Liechtenstein banks might be next in line for a federal look-see, their vaunted secrecy laws notwithstanding. In light of Birkenfeld's arrest, private bankers from Zurich and Geneva to the Isle of Jersey off the coast of England are assuming a bunker mentality. One private banker in London, caught up on events at UBS, responded, "My God, we're doomed." Says Reuven Avi-Yonah, a professor and director of the international tax program at University of Michigan Law School: "The whole world of private banking is full...
...Jeffords and Chafee were members of a dying breed - the liberal New England Republican. McCain, on the other hand, was a Western conservative from Arizona who had gone to Congress as a Reagan Republican. But after the searing experience of getting entangled in the Keating Five scandal in the 1980s, McCain had grown increasingly independent, pursuing campaign-finance reform and other causes that made his fellow Republicans doubt his ideological convictions...
...Despite banner headlines warning of a "Broken Britain," it remains relatively safe. The homicide rate of 1.6 per 100,000 in England and Wales compares favorably with the rate of 5.9 per 100,000 in the U.S. Overall crime figures are down by one-third since the ruling Labour Party was voted into power in 1997, and London has actually seen a reduction in most violent offenses in recent years...
...shining today on Hartlepool Bay in the Northeast of England, but it's a fair bet Anne Darwin was not remotely disposed to a day of water sports. For the second day this week, the 56-year-old woman is on trial for her alleged involvement in the celebrated disappearance and resurfacing of her husband, John Darwin, a.k.a. Canoeman. As the alleged accomplice to a monumental subterfuge, she faces five counts of obtaining money by deception and one of obtaining property by deception, all of which she denies. John has already pled guilty to seven similar charges and awaits sentencing...
...suffering from amnesia. Just days after his miraculous return, the errant canoeist was arrested on suspicion of fraud. And it turned out that in the meantime his wife had sold the family home, moved to Panama, and possessed assets totaling some $1 million. On arriving back in England following her husband's reappearance, she was arrested at Manchester Airport...