Word: switzerland
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...RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH * RESIDENCE 1 William Gates III U.S. 51 56.0 U.S. 2 Carlos Slim Helú Mexico 67 53.1 Mexico 3 Warren Buffett U.S. 76 52.4 U.S. 4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 81 33.0 Switzerland 5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 Britain...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: With my cousin, convincing a group of kids at a ski lodge in Switzerland that our family was in the mafia and was there for a low-key meeting with the heads of the other families...
WHEN I FIRST TRAVELED TO THE KURDISH north in August 2004 to escape the heat and violence of Baghdad, the so-called Switzerland of Iraq was disappointing in one respect: summers on the high plains of Arbil are almost as scorching. Otherwise, Kurdistan was a refuge. In Baghdad, journalists had begun hiring security entourages and erecting guarded compounds. To the north in Arbil, as a visiting American, I was practically given the keys to the city. I did my reporting by foot or hailed taxis from the street, spent my evenings in beer gardens or pizza parlors, and slept...
...Colombo oscillate between talking and fighting. "They forget that you can and should deal with the underlying problem with or without the L.T.T.E.," says Dayan Jayatilleka, a senior lecturer in the department of politics at the University of Colombo who was recently named Sri Lanka's ambassador to Switzerland and permanent representative to the U.N. in Geneva. "It's this kind of a trap...
...When I first traveled to the Kurdish North in August of 2004 to escape the heat and violence of Baghdad, the so-called "Switzerland of Iraq" was disappointing in just one respect: summers on the high plains of Erbil are almost as scorching. Otherwise, Kurdistan was a refuge. In Baghdad, journalists had begun hiring security entourages and erecting guarded compounds. Up north in Erbil, as a visiting American, I was practically given keys to the city. I did my reporting by foot or hailed taxis from the street, spent my evenings in beer gardens or pizza parlors, and slept...