Word: confidante
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In almost 30 years of public life, Alain Juppé earned a reputation as one of France's most imperious and cerebral politicians - and as Jacques Chirac's loyal confidant and anointed successor as President of the Republic. After he tried to force through a raft of unpopular reforms as...
This decision targets the entire Chirac system, striking at the man at the top of that system—Chirac —via his closest ally and confidant.
The cramped, cluttered home of Gloria Tapia and Victor Hernandez sits half a block off the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles. The couple, illegal immigrants from Mexico who became U.S. citizens through an amnesty program, raised six American-born children in the city. Today their two-bedroom bungalow is...
Roh has not been linked to alleged misdeeds by his political associates. (A Blue House spokesman declined requests for an interview with TIME.) But ongoing, wide-ranging investigations by the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office are coming disturbingly close to the President. According to a copy of an indictment obtained by...
A charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.J. (Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in...