The legislative attack on financial services, such as it was, already happened.

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In 2000, as it happened, I was already familiar, in a glancing sort of way, with a longitudinal study that followed the lives of two hundred and sixty-eight men who graduated from Harvard in the years around 1940.

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That is unlikely to happen, but what has already happened (whether Cypriots will admit it or not) is that Cyprus is dead as an offshore haven.

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