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...fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French judges drove to his sumptuous home near Bordeaux and formally placed the 75-year-old Dumas under investigation for corruption in connection with a wide-ranging probe of France's Elf Aquitaine oil company...
Dumas, if eventually found guilty, will have been brought down by his two lifelong passions: money and women. The trail that led investigators to his doorstep began with a femme fatale, Christine Deviers-Joncour, 51, a sultry, high-living brunet who sluiced millions out of Elf's coffers to buy a palatial Paris apartment, designer clothes, fancy restaurant meals, exotic vacations--and a $2,000 pair of handmade boots for her protector Roland Dumas. Whether Deviers-Joncour and Elf were also the source of the millions of dollars that Dumas deposited in his personal bank accounts from...
...CNBC's "Brian Williams" had begun to sound a dirge for Kenneth Starr's case against the President. But by 10:25 p.m., the Lewinsky saga was gone completely. Mere minutes later, Sexgate-dependable CNBC was showing -- oh, the sweet innocence of days past! -- the Keebler Elf waving from the New York Stock Exchange podium to kick off a public offering. Has the world gone...
...ship out more toys, not jobs. I've watched chronic cost cutting hamper production at the likes of Boeing and Union Pacific, and I will not allow our ranks to thin so far that we lose business to Toys "R" Us simply because we don't have the elf-power to stitch up enough Beanie Babies by Christmas...
...lifting of sanctions. Iraq owes Russia an estimated $10 billion in foreign-aid loans--money that can't be paid back so long as Iraqi funds are frozen--and Russian companies have some $20 billion in contracts with Iraq ready to kick in if sanctions are lifted. France's Elf Aquitaine and Total Petroleum companies are negotiating similar deals...