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...most damaging blow to Swiss credibility came on the night of Jan. 9. During regular rounds at the main Union Bank of Switzerland office in Zurich, security guard Christoph Meili, 29, peeked into the shredding room. There he saw two carts full of documents waiting to be destroyed. Meili noticed that some of them concerned dealings with Germany during the 1940s, including sales of confiscated properties. All of them were protected by recent Swiss regulations forbidding the destruction of any documents that might help clarify Switzerland's wartime banking role...
Upscale, educated and destined to become model consumers, the spring-break crowd has become a prime target for advertisers eager to turn the affluent young into lifelong customers. "It's a good break from all the sun," said Brett Meili, a junior from Northwestern University, of the promotional games and events laid on for the students. "Whether I will buy the products, I don't know, but when I see the stuff in the store I'll remember I was jumping up and down for it in Daytona...