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September 29, 2003 12:00 am

Tight security at the Roosevelt Hotel caused Robert Pickel, ceo of ISDA, to speculate that hotel staffers were taking Warren Buffet's comment that derivatives are "weapons of mass destruction" a bit too literally.

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