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Last Saturday at dawn Syrian forces opened a devastating air and artillery bombardment of Aoun's headquarters. But Aoun apparently had advance knowledge of the attack, and had already taken refuge in the French embassy. By noon, Lebanese forces loyal to Hrawi had taken over Aoun's fiefdom and the French were negotiating safe passage out of the country for the general. Aoun's defeat not only offered Assad unprecedented control over Lebanon but also gave him the satisfaction of defeating a man who had once got his weapons from the Syrian leader's most implacable foe: Saddam Hussein...
...purposes. As far as the University is concerned, women's and gender concerns should be incorporated into all aspects of the Harvard experience; for example, as part of the curriculum or in an inclusive student center. They should not be given their own tuition-funded and Harvard sanctioned fiefdom...
...once did. However, I am loathe to think that we should continue to allow systematic targeting resulting in the demise of U.S. industries to persist, while the door to the Japanese market is welded shut to non-Japanese competition. For example, the construction industry in Japan is a feudalistic fiefdom, closely working with the Japanese government to exclude foreign competition. For the protection it receives, it liberally lines the coffers of Japanese politicians...
...aging filmmaker ran DEG like a private fiefdom, showering his family members and girlfriend with six-figure salaries or distribution deals. "So much money passed through that building, and I don't know where it all went," says Gary DeVore, DEG's former head of production. "I was one of the highest- placed executives and I didn't even know about the deals with Dino's family...
Copley was a secretary from Iowa who married her boss, James Copley, and at his death in 1973 hesitantly took over his press fiefdom. Surprisingly, for a reticent, private figure, she proved to be a hands-on publisher who expanded the Copley newspaper chain and quadrupled its worth to more than $800 million. Kroc, whose personal fortune is estimated at $950 million, was a music teacher and supper-club organist from Minnesota who married McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in 1969 and moved to San Diego with him in 1976 to run his newly acquired Padres. After Kroc's death...