11.   In these woeful times, spare a thought for the Swiss banker.

12.   It arises when a Swiss banker played by John Standing finds himself widowed, calls his grown son in Japan and, bereft, goes about purging his grief.

13.   Jewish leaders and Swiss bankers signed an agreement in New York setting up a panel that will search for the assets of Holocaust victims.

14.   Last week, the Swiss banker Pierre Essig announced the formation of a syndicate that may be partially funded by high-end Swiss watchmakers.

15.   No one is making a better case that Swiss bankers may have looted the accounts of Jewish depositors who were killed in the Holocaust than the bankers themselves.

16.   Nonetheless, senior Swiss officials acknowledged recently that some Swiss bankers opposed the publication of the names.

17.   Now Swiss bankers are following the Germans, albeit decades later.

18.   She has been criticized by reluctant Swiss bankers who assert that she opened splashy cases but did not come through with convictions.

19.   She also went after former Soviet officials who were stashing cash in Switzerland and Swiss bankers who embezzled funds, sometimes in cahoots with Latin American gangsters.

20.   Son ousts dad, forgets to tell the Swiss bankers.