Air France KLM, for example, announced unexpectedly last month that its new chief executive would be Alexandre de Juniac, formerly chief of staff to Christine Lagarde when she was France's finance minister.

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Most recently, Alexandre de Juniac, a chief of staff to Christine Lagarde when she was finance minister, took charge at Air France in spite of having no operating experience of the airline business.

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On the other hand, as recently as 1993, Belgium's Prince Alexandre de Merode, who is head of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, said that he believed one-in-ten Olympic athletes was a regular drug-user.

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To help us understand this greater importance, Gopnik touches on deeper themes involving the regularities of dining, our fundamental relationships with food, and theories from gastronomic writers like Alexandre Grimod de La Reyniere and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

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The two tourists boarded a public transportation van in Rio's Copacabana beach district, shortly after midnight on Saturday morning, said Alexandre Braga, police commissioner for Rio de Janeiro's state police force.

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