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...every product placer gets such a high profile. Jinx won't walk around with a Revlon sign to let us know who made her makeup, and Bond won't have a Brioni tag hanging off his tux. But the firms hope for gilt by association--and the chance to slap a 007 seal of approval on their ads. Bollinger champagne can freshen its traditional image with the help of the "debonair and charming James Bond," says president Ghislain de Montgolfier. "What could be more stylishly up-to-date...
...presence even as he potters about the twisting rows of tea bushes swaddling the slopes below his Chinese-style villa. Further down, the mountain falls away in an undulating patchwork of tea, tobacco, fruit trees and stands of thick forest. Above, near the summit, the sun glints on the gilt-wrapped domes and spires of a Buddhist temple. "We are just ordinary Thai citizens now," Lue says. His passport records his name as Aroon Charoentangchanya, and under that alias he has slipped back into China several times. "I even went to Beijing a couple of years back," he says...
...grumble that Bush is going soft on defense, Perle is returning to the battlefield. Pentagon insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will soon promote Perle, previously an unpaid member of the 18-person Defense Policy Board, to board chairman. That will give him a Pentagon office in the gilt-edged E-ring, one floor away from Rumsfeld and better able to catch his ear should Perle find the Pentagon underfunded or slow in building a missile shield. So far, he has been uncharacteristically sunny. Says he: "Personally, I haven't seen anything to criticize...
While Boies was at Northwestern, his first marriage broke up. Soon after, he was banished from the law school for engaging in an affair with a professor's wife (she later married him). Boies completed his law degree at Yale and went to work for Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a gilt-edged New York law firm. At Cravath the individual is utterly subordinate to the institution, and all partners, irrespective of how much business they bring in or how successful they are, are paid the same. It was an unlikely place for an oddball like Boies--How many Cravath partners spend...
They keep their promises, these Bec-Fin people. Precisely 15 minutes later, we were seated in the salmon-and-gilt main dining room. The place was packed with men in high-end suits and women in cashmere sweater sets, and I experienced a moment of panic, wishing I'd had a chance to pick up my pearls before I'd set out. Not to worry; the staff were warm and welcoming, even to the underdressed, and the fat cats were meowing and purring too much to notice...