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...best-seller lists, someone else is, and he's not exactly a moral paragon. In the current best seller Absolute Power, the Leader of the Free World, the heir of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, almost kills a paramour during rough sex and then aids in the cover-up. In the summer's hot title Exclusive, the President of the United States murders the baby his girlfriend refused to abort. In the film Escape from L.A., the Chief Executive orders the assassination of his own daughter, while in the movie version of Primary Colors, John Travolta is slated to play...
...been made when he was dismissed from the Soviet communist leadership. Lebed has been feeling thwarted ever since going into the government in June, in what was seen at the time as a brilliant move by Yeltsin campaign organizer Chubais. Lebed took the job expecting to be both heir apparent and acting President. But other equally ambitious politicians--Chubais, who was named presidential chief of staff after the elections, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin--had no intention of handing over power. Lebed found himself increasingly hemmed in. His departure now gives him the chance he has been longing...
...employees may also be called on to testify against their own, notably executive vice president Michael Andreas, 47, longtime heir apparent to his father, ADM chairman and CEO Dwayne Andreas, 78. Prosecutors are continuing their investigation of both the younger Andreas and Terrance Wilson, 58, who heads the ADM corn-processing division. Neither was granted immunity--meaning that both could face indictment. ADM said last week that Andreas was taking a leave of absence and that Wilson had decided to retire...
...very good" only pages earlier, because of a trespass on rules that skeptics contend he has not yet stated. In chapter 22, in a passage that stands with the Book of Job as Scripture's most wrenching enigma, he demands that Abraham sacrifice his favorite son and long-awaited heir, relenting only as the knife is poised to strike...
RULED INCOMPETENT. JOHN E. DU PONT, 57, eccentric millionaire and chemical heir; to stand trial in the slaying of Olympic wrestler David Shultz; in Media, Pennsylvania...