1.   American financiers may like to think of themselves as a world apart from Thai bankers, but there was a certain symmetry in what went wrong.

2.   At a World Bank seminar in Hong Kong last month, he accused the American financier George Soros of single-handedly causing the fall of the ringgit.

3.   Blaming the crisis on arbitrageurs and hedge fund managers such as American financier George Soros, Mahathir proposed global controls on money trading that appalled Washington.

4.   Indeed, the only people who have actually bought a system so far are Callahan and a secretive American financier named Gary A. Klesch.

5.   One of them is nabbing a refugee American financier ensconced in a Caribbean fortress and getting him back home.

6.   Parker and Pilaro, who was a former associate of the infamous American financier Robert Vesco, live in London and Geneva, respectively.

7.   Some of his shareholders, including prominent American financiers, have similarly complained in legal filings in Russia that he has spirited away oil profits from Yukos subsidiaries.

8.   The other owner is Kerry Stokes, a partner with the American financier Kirk Kerkorian in MGM, the film studio.

9.   Then he congratulated his American financier.

10.   Two officials of an organization in Croatia sponsored by the American financier George Soros were found guilty Friday of tax evasion by falsifying official records.