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...Switzerland has no business going to war with anyone else...
Think a seven-hour bus ride to Potsdam, N.Y., is a long road trip? As a junior in high school, Smith spent a total of six weeks in four countries—the Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland and Germany—while playing with the U.S. National Team Developmental Program...
...Paris, C'est Cher! FRANCE Public prosecutors confirmed that an investigation is under way into suspect transfers totaling $11.4 million to accounts held by the Paris-based wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The probe was launched in October after the Bank of France flagged monthly deposits from Switzerland made between July 2002 and July 2003 to two accounts held by Suha Arafat. She denied the payments were illegal, and accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of orchestrating "malicious" reports...
...Even those efforts have stalled. One reason is that some havens now feel they are being discriminated against; while they have started to clean up their acts, they argue, places like Switzerland and Delaware have not. "The tables have turned," says Ian Kelly, the Isle of Man's income-tax assessor. "The problem for us is that we see larger jurisdictions doing the very things we are attacked for, and nobody brings them to account." If the Isle of Man did the sort of marketing that some in Delaware do, he tells Time, "it would make headlines in the newspapers...
...spring of 2002, the protagonists in this exercise, including several current and former officials in the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, decided to work on a draft paper that would serve as a model for the end game in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They would produce in Switzerland a detailed agreement of about 60 pages, with detailed attached maps, that would give clear and specific solutions on all issues. I participated actively in the initiation of this process and in numerous negotiations in the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, first as an individual and, since April 2003, as special...