A United States tax amnesty, part of a campaign to crack down on perceived tax havens such as Switzerland, has netted 7,500 repentant tax dodgers. An investigation into UBS, that found that the Swiss bank had helped US citizens evade tax, helped fuel a crusade to weed out cheats who were using offshore accounts to hide undeclared assets
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US tax amnesty nets 7,500 tax dodgers
The Swiss Justice Ministry has denied Roman Polanski’s request to be released from prison. According to the Ministry, there’s still a high risk that Polanski might go on the run if released from custody.
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Roman Polanski — Get Comfortable
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It was a rainy day in Boston so devoted mom Jennifer Garner gave her adorable daughter Violet a piggy back ride! The mother and daughter pair didn’t let the rainy Sunday get them down as they jumped in puddles in their rain gear.
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Director Roman Polanski was set to attend the Zurich Film Festival–which was set to honor him with a lifetime achievement award–but got arrested instead. He got popped for that whole statutory rape thing that he’s been fleeing from for the past 30 years.
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Tagged Arrest, ending-concert, famed-director, Family, France, Hollywood, Las Vegas, polanski, roman-polanski, spears, swiss, tour, zurich, zurich-film
In case the whole “Switzerland arresting someone” aspect of the Polanski case threw you, here's a chart of all the countries who've signed extradition treaties with the US. The Swiss are still good with your stolen money FYI
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U.S. Extradition Treaties
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Will Roman Polanski be extradited? Is he a misunderstood artist, or a rapist who should rot? Questions! But none as interesting as how the AP’s notes for the story landed on the pages of Forbes and the New York Times
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AP’s Notes on Roman Polanski’s Arrest Leak Onto News Wires Everywhere
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Tagged accidents, fail, Hollywood, media, mind, new-york-times, Sex, swiss, whether-or-not, writethru, York
In a Swiss laboratory, a group of ten robots is competing for food. Prowling around a small arena, the machines are part of an innovative study looking at the evolution of communication, from engineers Sara Mitri and Dario Floreano and evolutionary biologist Laurent Keller. They programmed robots with the task of finding a “food source” indicated by a light-coloured ring at one end of the arena, which they could “see” at close range with downward-facing sensors.
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Robots evolve to deceive one another
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Tagged arena, artificial, based-on-how, current, evolution, food-or-poison, from-engineers, Hollywood, how-successful, machines, points-based, swiss, the-evolution, the-machines
Roger Federer and his wife Mirka (Miroslava Vavrinec) are the proud parents of twin girls, the tennis legend announced early Friday morning on his official site .
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Roger Federer and Wife Mirka Welcome Twin Girls!
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