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...million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...
...heady world of international business, so many interests seem to overlap. PAUL VOLCKER, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve who serves on a variety of high-powered boards, is a paid director of Nestle, Switzerland's largest company. Nothing odd there, except that other Nestle directors include the bosses of Switzerland's three largest banks, and these are among the banks Volcker is charged with investigating as head of a committee of "eminent persons" looking into Switzerland's role during World War II. Why are questions about Volcker's Nestle position being raised now? Perhaps because in a recent...
...Richard Rainwater, a Fort Worth, Texas, billionaire, each invested $125,000 in a pair of struggling hospitals in El Paso, Texas. That became the seed for Columbia's present holdings of 1,062 hospitals, outpatient surgical centers and home-health-care centers in 36 states, England, Switzerland and Spain...
...ZURICH, Switzerland: Swiss banks today published multi-page ads in major newspapers from New York to London to Moscow, listing WWII-era depositors in the hopes of reuniting holocaust survivors and their relatives with long-lost money. The lists are an unprecedented step for the famously discreet Swiss banks, and certainly a nifty PR move, coinciding today with the Swiss Bankers Association's announcement that it had found $15 million more that may have belonged to Holocaust victims. Ex-Fed chairman Paul Volcker, who heads an international body charged with tracking missing Holocaust assets, says a new list...
...dirt, dozens of info brokers are waiting on the Web to supply you with just about anyone's Social Security number, listed (and unlisted) phone numbers, voter registrations, driving records, court records, real estate holdings, liens and, well, you name it. Even such esoterica as companies registered in Switzerland, corporate profiles of Japanese businessmen and Nevada divorce petitions are all stored neatly online and available for a price...