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In the first place, uncovering and dismantling the entire store of Saddam's arsenal is an almost impossible task. During the last inspections, Iraqi officials deceived, obstructed and harassed U.N. monitors, who departed in 1998 knowing Iraq had unconventional weapons they hadn't found. Anti-Iraq hawks have little confidence...
Unlike vulture funds, which buy entire portfolios for a fraction of their worth, Heise, Rempt and partner Hans van Bennekom want to use their business acumen and contacts to save the companies in venture firms' portfolios. "The idea is to look at companies on a case-by-case basis and...
To judge from the reaction in Switzerland, complying with the demand would be like giving away the Alps. "We won?t allow ourselves to be crushed by the weight of the E.U.," says Hans Kaufmann, a former bank economist and the Swiss member of the parliament spearheading a move to...
The talks resumed on Sept. 3 after a summer recess, but a war of words was heating up before that date. German Finance Minister Hans Eichel publicly reprimanded Switzerland at the E.U.?s Seville summit in June, saying it was unacceptable for any nation to make a living as "a...
A bank spokesman says that transition is now over. According to Hans-Peter Bauer, a managing director in charge of regulatory affairs at UBS, the bank has established separate due-diligence officers for every geographic region as well as a small full-time intelligence team that checks account names against...