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Rich, Green and their company were at first accused of illegally buying oil from Ayatullah Khomeini during the hostage crisis. That charge was subsequently dropped against their company because the purchases were made only by its Swiss subsidiary and should not have been subject to U.S. prosecution...
...course the power players gathered at Davos aren't exactly paying attention to the proceedings at Porto Alegre. So if you want to make your voice heard on the ski slopes of power, your best bet may be hellomrpresident.com, an independent Swiss media project that will project your e-mail message of no more than 160 characters onto a ski slope that looms over the town, meaning Messrs. Gates and Soros couldn't possibly miss it. Use the language of your choice, just don't cuss or advertise. Cute quote of Day 1: "Don't produce, reduce...
...There's something more than a little surreal about the World Economic Forum's annual get-together in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which opened on Thursday. Davos is a conspiracy theorist's dream. Its participants - scores of heads of state and senior ministers, representatives of 1,000 of the world's biggest corporations and an eclectic assortment of economists, social critics, writers, artists and thinkers - may reflect an unparalleled concentration of political and economic power, and yet the event has no formal mandate or decision-making power. In fact, it's not even strictly a conference...
...doubt a product of no longer having the pressure of being an expected savior. The Giants can't help but be inspired by Collins, who, in the NFC Championship game against the Vikings, cashed in on a game plan that relied on him to carve through Minnesota's Swiss cheese secondary. He turned in one of the most magnificent performances in NFL playoff history by halftime...
...malaria each year; of these, up to 3 million die, most of them children. With resistance to once effective antimalarials like chloroquine now widespread in Asia, Africa and South America, the prognosis could not seem more grim. "We're in a desperate situation," says Robert G. Ridley of the Swiss-based Medicines for Malaria Venture...