Word: supremo
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...story brick house with tan stucco trim. Known to officials as the "Shanghai No. 1 Construction Project," the property is supposed to be the retirement home of Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. During China's 16th Party Congress that concluded last week, Jiang, 76, became the first modern Chinese supremo to resign his position. He was expected to go off and peacefully build his library?or whatever Chinese ex-leaders might do?after ceding control to Hu Jintao, 59, Jiang's replacement as General Secretary...
...keen to fight for new deals and renegotiate old ones. And no one is taking bets on who would win that war. THE RACING BUSINESS Reinventing The Formula Fast racehorses are handicapped - given extra weight to carry - so why not Formula One race cars? Last week the sport's supremo, Bernie Ecclestone, proposed handicapping as one way to stop the Ferrari team from waltzing away with next year's championship, as they have done this season. Since Ferrari wrapped up Michael Schumacher's record-equaling fifth drivers' championship in July, Ecclestone has been under pressure from sponsors, advertisers...
What will it take to bring peace to tiny, tortured Sri Lanka, now in the 19th year of a conflict that has taken 65,000 lives? More than anything, the cooperation of one man, Velupillai Prabhakaran, supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), one of the most enduring and deadly rebel groups in the world. Prabhakaran emerged from the jungles of northern Sri Lanka last week to hold his first press conference in 12 years and talk some very uncharacteristic talk: of peace. If the right deal is offered, he announced, he will call off the rebellion, collect...
Chirac insisted that his declaration had been planned for some time, but just how long is the subject of some debate. Chirac's original battle plan - drawn up by his daughter and P.R. supremo Claude - replicated the tactics used by Socialist President François Mitterrand to foil an earlier Chirac bid in 1988. Back then, Mitterrand remained regally above the fray until four weeks before the election, when he launched a blistering campaign focused on a united France. Mitterrand trounced Chirac with 54% of the vote in the second round runoff, the biggest presidential majority of the past...
...isolated in the Arab and Muslim world does he become ineffective. Ross is only one small part of the puzzle, of course - in recent days the Bush administration has dispatched Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld to buck up U.S. allies, named an ambassador to the Northern Alliance, appointed advertising supremo Charlotte Beers (whose resume includes stellar campaigns for Head and Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's Rice) as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy to sell the American point of view, and announced that the President would make his case for a continued war in Afghanistan in a nationally televised...