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...level, Hilary understood what had happened--the crumbling-towers sequence was seared in her memory--but she chose instead to believe her father's last words: I'm fine. He of all people must have known how to find the emergency exits. A safety engineer by training and an executive in risk management at Aon, George was almost comically consumed with accident prevention. He evangelized about helmets and seat belts; he even had a decibel meter that he used to measure loud music lest anyone perforate an eardrum. Hilary's dad was just a little late getting home. Maybe...
...playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told his bosses at Tele+ when negotiating his contract, "I'm rich in an embarrassing...
...just as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany, Stalin was purging his opponents in the Soviet Union and a clenched fistful of dictators were strutting around other European countries. By law, bankers who breach client confidentiality today face up to six months in jail and a fine...
...profitability and forcing bankers to work particularly hard to calm their well-heeled clients. Swiss banks have also borne the brunt of a successful tax amnesty mounted earlier this year by Giulio Tremonti, Italy?s Finance Minister. Italians repatriated assets valued at j52 billion, paying a symbolic 2.5% fine in exchange for immunity. Much of the total was pulled out of Switzerland; j10.6 billion came from just one Swiss bank, UBS (although the bank says almost half of that money was moved to branches it has opened in Italy...
...refocus attention on the company - and away from Ms. Stewart's legal troubles." Hmmm. Still, as her millions of fans will attest, Martha isn't solely the sum of her allegations. For an excellent assessment of why our favorite domesticatrix has such a fundamental appeal, see Caitlin Flanagan's fine piece in this month's Atlantic Monthly...