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...Restraint like that is just like what Alan Greenspan (now making his way back to the U.S. from Switzerland) and the world?s central bankers are hoping for. Fearing panic - and that large dollar transactions could be lost in gaps in the infrastructure created by the World Trade Center disaster - the Federal Reserve requested Wednesday that central banks overseas limit the trading of dollars in the next few days while it copes with money supply issues. Indeed, dollar/yen trading Wednesday was limited and benign...
...trading day was called off. (The New York Stock Exchange building was unharmed, but dust and debris from the WTC collapses flew far enough to endanger anyone who stood outside.) Perhaps the only reassurance available was the news that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan was on a trip in Switzerland and safe from the concurrent destruction in Washington...
...else was there? Venus, Serena, Martina, of course, that foreign exchange student from Switzerland - Martina Hingis - the one no one likes. Grrrr...
...Peter Katel: Short of a top-to-bottom reassessment of the U.S. role in Colombia, which is unlikely, the outlook is for continued U.S. support for Pastrana and the peace process. That said, Washington, like many Colombian military officers, has no enthusiasm for the continued existence of "FARClandia," the Switzerland-sized chunk of territory the government turned over to the guerillas two-and-a-half years ago which the Colombian army is forbidden to enter. Many Colombians, especially urban Colombians, see that the FARC got something for free, because it hasn't let up on its insurgency despite being given...
...hair cut again. This time, he managed to make it into Kuching without being stopped and, on March 29, 1999, he flew over the city carrying a symbolic lamb he had knitted as a peace offering to the Chief Minister. (His original plan to bring a live lamb from Switzerland was aborted when Singapore Airlines refused to give the animal passage. There were also objections from animal rights activists among his friends...