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...however, an assumption that guided the way women were painted in quattrocento Italy. Actually, one feels that this show comes about 35 years late. It should have been done back in the '60s, when the National Gallery bought Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci from Liechtenstein. Leonardo was in his early '20s when he painted this daughter of a rich Florentine banker, circa 1474-78. On the front of the panel you see the familiar face--that pale, egg-smooth, cold teenage mask--a girl soberly dressed in brown, the blue lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues...
...join a global crackdown on criminal and terrorist money havens earlier this year. Thirty industrial nations were ready to tighten the screws on offshore financial centers like Liechtenstein and Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. Then the Bush Administration took office...
...havens are one of the world's great growth industries. There are more of them than ever, from Liechtenstein to Panama to Vanuatu, a tiny rock sticking out of the Pacific, well-wired into the world financial system. And the amount of money they harbor around the globe is staggering--as much as $5 trillion, according to the U.S. State Department. The Cayman Islands (pop. 35,000) has more than $800 billion on deposit--fully one-fifth as much as the entire U.S. banking system. And those Cayman deposits are swelling by an estimated $120 billion a year...
...voted most photogenic b) already devoured Miss Liechtenstein c) has not worked since Don Juan DeMarco d) is the official swimsuit photographer for Miss Universe...
FATF was not the first group to home in on Liechtenstein's peccadillos. Last May the nation of 32,000 people was shaken to learn that Austrian police called in by the government had detained four men on suspicion of fraud, misuse of funds and money laundering. The four, who were subsequently released from jail uncharged, included Gabriel Marxer, a legislator in the 25-member parliament, and Rudolf Ritter, brother of Deputy Prime Minister Michael Ritter. Legislators agreed to lift Marxer's parliamentary immunity to allow him to be detained. In a separate action, police searched and carted away documents...