Word: confidante
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The stage is being set for the next phase in the struggle for the leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle...
But most of the discussions taking place in Kuala Lumpur's smoke-filled rooms center on the Daim-Mahathir split. Daim is currently traveling in the U.S., following the Prime Minister's announcement in mid-April that his longtime confidant was taking an unusual three-month break from his job...
And then there's the company Green Mountain keeps. Some of Green Mountain's best investors are George W. Bush's friends. Literally - Sam Wyly, a longtime Bush confidant, is the company's largest investor. And behind Wyly are energy giants BP Amoco and Nuon, who each own about a...
RUSSIA Personal Choices President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on Russia's government with significant changes to the Cabinet that he inherited a year ago from Boris Yeltsin. Out went Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, to be replaced by Putin's closest confidant, Sergey Ivanov. Duma Deputy Boris Gryzlov, who in...
But Reid Weingarten, Weinig's well-connected lawyer, took his case to Nolan, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta and presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey, pleading that Weinig's law professor wife Alice and two sons had suffered enough. "I submitted a binder that made people cry," Weingarten told TIME, though...