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...Chris Walker of Swiss Re describes how this might come about with regard to climate change. He notes that energy giant Exxon/Mobil accounts for roughly 1% of global emissions, and has aggressively lobbied against any efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses. "So," says Walker, "we might then go to them and say, 'Since you don't think climate change is a problem, we're sure you won't mind if we exclude climate related lawsuits and penalties from your D&O insurance.'" Swiss Re recently set the stage for such action by sending a questionnaire to its D&O customers inquiring...
...designers are assembling new sales wagons for Ferragamo, Tod's, Louis Vuitton, Comme des Garcons, Jil Sander, Prada and other luxe labels. They are exquisite spaces, and they are more luxury priced than ever, now that the stores have commissioned such prizewinning architects as Rem Koolhaas and the Swiss team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron...
That's a bit of a stretch, coming from a fellow who went to a Swiss boarding school, who favors Hermes ties and who's married to Teresa Heinz of the condiment megafortune. With the public at large, Kerry has yet to make much of an impression. Polls show him planted in the middle of the pack of six (thus far) declared candidates. But the Democratic cognoscenti are beginning to think that Kerry just might...
Case in point: four of us have chartered a driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine--like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...
...Schröder. And he was smart enough to align himself with Washington in the fight against terrorism." Slowed by age and arthritic legs, Ustinov appears onscreen less often than the several roles a year he once averaged. But, when not at his home of 30 years in the Swiss wine-growing village of Bursins, he remains in perpetual motion. In addition to his U.N. work he chairs and partially funds the Geneva-based Global Harmony Foundation, whose projects have included a hospital in Niger for victims of Noma, a flesh-wasting disease, and three girls' schools in Afghanistan...