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...Partners In Crime," comes on the heels of a 67-page report released last week by the Council of Europe, which charges that 14 European countries helped the CIA move terror suspects and that two of them (Romania and Poland) likely had secret CIA prisons. That report's author, Swiss parliament member Dick Marty, used language as tough as Amnesty's, accusing the U.S. of creating "this reprehensible network" and European partners of "grossly negligent collusion...
...that the fundamental charges made by the Council of Europe last week are accurate: that, since 2001, 14 European countries have, to varying degrees, been complicit with "extraordinary renditions," the cia's system of moving suspects to countries where they were, or may have been, tortured. Dick Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian who led the Council's investigation, slammed what he called a "reprehensible network" of European nations that, he said, allowed the cia to operate on their soil, provided stopover points for suspects en route to a torture location, or exchanged information with U.S. intelligence that eased the torture process...
...stopped confectioner Ladurée from creating a Marie-Antoinette collection of its pastel-colored macaroons. Theme Queen In July, the Château de Versailles reveals a Marie-Antoinette "domain." A spokesman promises "the rediscovery of the intimate Marie-Antoinette" in her bucolic former refuge. Tempus Fugit Swiss watchmaker Breguet is recreating the n?160. The watch - originally commissioned for Marie-Antoinette by a mystery admirer - incorporated every horological complication in existence. N?160's release date and price remain top secret. Dead Sexy Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian has created a fragrance that purports to reflect Marie-Antoinette's tastes. A limited...
Holding court in the Swiss Alps two and a half weeks earlier, Summers was at the top of his game. As co-chair of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the former U.S. Treasury secretary presided over a group of world leaders who knew Summers for his service in Washington, D.C., not his troubles in Cambridge...
...Johannesburg, Dakar, Abidjan and Morocco; a coffee plantation in Brazil; and, in the cellars of his estate in Portugal, 14,000 bottles of past-its-prime wine from 1930, the year of his birth. The dictator, who is suffering from prostate cancer, will thus not be inconvenienced by the Swiss seizure of one of his estates...