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...asserts, "The songs themselves, the attitude, the personality, is all from my personal character." Yet none of the songs on Up! reveal anything specific about that character, such as the fact that Twain recently moved into a 100-room chateau in Switzerland or that she gave birth to a baby boy, Eja. "Who wants to hear about my kid? It's private," she says flatly, dropping the subject for a moment, only to pick it up again. "Who's gonna relate to that, anyway? People are going to go out and pay for the record, and I want my music...
Twain and Lange now live in their chateau in Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, one of the more beautiful places in the world in which to bore yourself to tears. The food is great, the mountains are mountainous, and the people are impenetrable. "Hello" from a stranger is an embarrassing monologue. They moved there in part for tax purposes and in part because their 3,000-acre spread in upstate New York was no longer private enough. Twain has persuaded her record label not to promote her music in Switzerland. They really like their privacy...
...German factory by almost half. Some executives are thinking about even more radical moves, such as transferring not just their production facilities but their entire companies. Hans Brach, who owns an air-conditioning company that employs 50 workers, says he is seriously considering moving his headquarters to Switzerland or the Czech Republic. "If conditions [in Germany] continue, we will end up in a state administered by socialist principles and the free market will be controlled by the state," says Brach, who has fought against a German law that requires him to set up a factory council that includes workers' representatives...
...break Social Democratic taboos." Business has been particularly alarmed that sdp state governments are proposing the reintroduction of a wealth tax in a drive to balance their state budgets. Critics maintain that the estimated j350 billion that wealthy Germans have already hidden in bank accounts in tax havens like Switzerland would only grow if a wealth tax is introduced. The opposition says it will press ahead with its plans for a special parliamentary investigation of whether Schröder lied to the voters about his tax plans. "Tax increases are economically unreasonable in the current situation and therefore we will...
...Bahrain, the Noriba Bank offers its well-heeled clientele a wide range of financial services, from portfolio management to leasing. From its offices you can see the city's famous Al Fateh mosque. The proximity is significant, because even though Noriba, which opened in September, is wholly owned by Switzerland's largest bank, UBS Group, it is the only Western bank in the Gulf that insists that all of its services adhere to the strict letter of Islamic law, known as Shari'a. Compliance is neither easy nor cheap. The law, which derives from the Koran, covers all areas...