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...because it's big business and states compete at offering ever more secure anonymity along with other benefits. Delaware is the well-known leader. The state recently won the dubious top rank in a new Financial Secrecy Index, for the aggressive secrecy and dollar volume it handles, outdoing Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and Panama...
...whether “Laura” ought to have been published at all. Nabokov’s last wish was that it be burnt should he die before its completion, a worst-case scenario that came to pass in 1977 when the complications of fever took him in Switzerland. The literary world at once divided in two: the “publish” camp happy to get their hands on whatever they could from the man they considered a genius, and their “perish” antagonists urging incineration lest any imperfection blacken the Nabokovian halo...
...World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland welcomed unusually large delegations from many universities, including Harvard, which sent a number of senior administrators and well-known professors...
...with Vermont pension and operating funds invested not in Wall Street but in locally owned financial institutions. "We favor devolution of political power from the state back to local communities, making the governing structure for towns, schools, hospitals and social services much like that of small, decentralized states like Switzerland," declares the group's "21st Century Statement of Principles...
Nyamekye’s journey from Switzerland to Cambridge has now led him to the 2008 MLS Cup Champions Columbus Crew. However, his transition from collegiate to professional soccer is wrought with obstacles...