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...each year, veterans forget the choice before they arrive in the Swiss mountain town and get on with their usual Davos pastimes - counting heads of government; balancing champagne flutes and canapés; sneaking off for a quick run or two on the slopes (and since you ask, yes, a constant dusting during the week made the pistes gorgeous when the sun finally came out on Sunday, as the photo opposite proves). Plus, there's now celeb spotting, even if it is of a peculiarly Davos kind - by which I mean that nobody misses Sharon Stone or Brangelina, but delegates...
...plead that reasons of national security excuse it from its obligations, any international consensus on bribery would quickly disappear. "What happened with the U.K. - that a country has to explain itself and justify what it is doing internally - would have been impossible some years back," says Mark Pieth, a Swiss law professor who chairs the o.e.c.d. working group. Pieth says he wants Britain to have a fair hearing, but he worries that, if there has been a breach, the convention itself would be "squarely at risk...
They may also turn out to be France's fanciest thieves. So claimed the government last week as the baroness sat in a Swiss jail awaiting extradition and the baron was hauled away by French detectives. The pair was charged with possession of stolen goods; the goods being some of $5 million worth of jewelry taken from the Hotel Ritz last October, including a white-blue 44-carat diamond ring worth $2.5 million, a 6.65-carat pendant, a diamond-studded gold necklace, earrings and a gold watch...
...meeting was arranged in the vault of the Swiss Bank Corp. in Geneva. The insurance company's representatives at the encounter were actually undercover Swiss and French police. Who should arrive bearing stolen ring and pendant but the Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen. She was accompanied by two young men. Under questioning, the trio fingered the baron as the instigator of their "transaction...
...knew secret Swiss numbers...