Word: businessman
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...provided. Abu Ranin's greatest coup, he says, was in Romania. As he tells the story, he discovered a mukhabarat officer in Bucharest who had two useful qualities: he oversaw the regime's East European agents, and he had a weakness for prostitutes. Posing as a wealthy businessman based in Europe, Abu Ranin befriended the officer. He rented a villa and threw a private party with five prostitutes and ample alcohol. The mukhabarat officer brought four colleagues. Abu Ranin secretly audiotaped their drunken boastings and cajoled them into a few snapshots with the women. Blackmail, however, proved unnecessary. When...
...fending off questions about whether it had a role in exposing a spy, Mrs. Bush had a week of mending fences with the world and being cheered by schoolchildren. Not bad for a woman who less than nine years ago was a stay-at-home mom married to a businessman. Now she's a globe-trotting goodwill ambassador...
...resignation drama as desperate but calculated ploys to elicit voters' sympathy?while others merely saw them as evidence that Roh's faltering presidency is coming apart at the seams just eight months after he took office. "He's not taking the pressure very well," says a foreign businessman who once counted himself as a Roh supporter. "I can even see a scenario in which he opens his mouth at the wrong time and resigns." Says Kim Il Young, a political scientist at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul: "This is not something that happens in a normal democracy...
...overplayed their hand with the U.S., while others point the finger at Wolfowitz, who, say his critics, never understood that with the election of the A.K., military and secular leaders with strong ties to the U.S. no longer monopolized power. Says Emin Sirin, an A.K. parliamentary deputy and Istanbul businessman: "The Americans thought that if you talk to two or three people, you have Turkey in your hands. The whole system has changed, and they didn't appreciate that...
...organization that gives more power to civil society. The state no longer has a monopoly over the general interest. France was raised on the idea that the state is the solution for everything. No. The physician has a role in the general interest too. So has the businessman. It's not the state alone that defends the national interest. Our Parisian élite hasn't noticed yet that I'm decentralizing this country. Don't tell them. By the time they realize it, it will be too late for them. So what will change? We've changed the constitution...