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Kerviel wanted more action than his low-level position allowed. So he began trading secretly???racking up huge profits at first. He says some bosses knew and made him out to be a criminal only when the trades went bad. So was he solo? "If he was working alone, he would have been caught," says Suresh Sundaresan, a finance professor at New York City's Columbia Business School...
...grew to be an extraordinary association. After De Gaulle left office in 1946, Pompidou stayed on in a series of civil service posts, but spent much of his time?very discreetly, almost secretly???as the manager of De Gaulle's affairs. He handled the publication of the general's memoirs, administered the foundation in memory of the De Gaulles' retarded daughter Anne, and was in fact unofficial chef de cabinet for the exile in Colombey. When De Gaulle finally returned to office as Premier in the last days of the Fourth Republic, Pompidou took a six-month leave of absence...
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