Word: lites
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...violence or vandalism that are prosecuted reach the courts, they claim, the courts don't take their concerns seriously. They are rankled, for instance, over an August administrative appeals court ruling to reinstate two 11-year-old boys who had hit and insulted a Jewish classmate at Paris' élite Lycée Montaigne. "Now it's the victim who has to change schools," as Rabbi Claude Zaffran puts...
...staff. "Sechin is not just Putin's sounding board," says the cabinet official. "Sechin is part of his brain cells." Sechin's appointment, critics say, is another step in the redistribution of power and wealth from the Yeltsin-era "Family" - the oligarchs of the 1990s - to the Siloviki élite. If they're right, the next step will be a Rosneft victory in the race to snap up Yukos assets. Meanwhile, the ties among Moscow's new élite grow ever closer. Last year, Sechin's daughter Inga married an FSB school cadet named Dmitri Ustinov. The cadet's father...
...shut it down." Pétanque's evolution from leisure activity to serious sport has produced other growing pains, too. Some top players are suspected of seeking an advantage through performance-enhancing substances stronger than pastis. Random anti-doping tests are now common. "It's required for all élite sports, and the only infraction detected thus far was for cannabis a younger player had smoked the night before," chuckles Gaffet. Still, with the average age of competitive pétanque players now at just 30, Gaffet admits the risk of illicit toking - if not veritable doping - is higher than...
...based Forbes, which Klebnikov launched just three months ago - is set to appear on time next week, but will carry little or no coverage of the affair, Bershidsky says. But he's modestly optimistic that the killing will be solved; members of the country's ruling élite are "pretty shaken" by the murder, he explains. Few share his optimism. Other than the fact that Klebnikov's murder was a contract killing, nothing is clear - not even how many bullets struck him on the evening of July 9, as he walked to a nearby metro station. Work is the likely...
...hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive vice president. "He shows us a good time." CEOs rarely stoop to carouse with the common man in an Asia dominated by secretive business clans and élite old-boy networks. But Kim is no ordinary Asian boss. He began his career 35 years ago as a nondescript engineer at an LG refrigerator factory, climbed the ranks, and claimed the CEO post in October. Now he aims to duplicate the same feat with LG - lifting a consumer-electronics company...