"When he was a kid in school he always had flunkies who did things like carry his bags for him, " Tatsuo recalls.

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Unlike organized-crime cases, where there is no clear line of command between flunkies who commit crimes and the bosses who order them, corporations have an established hierarchy, he said.

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This week, the High Court considered a case brought by Lindiwe Dlamini, Ms Mahlangu's mother, who claims that the 18-year-old queen-to-be was kidnapped by the royal flunkies, along with two other girls.

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Reed appointed other Cohen flunkies as officer and directors of the Cohen entities when Reed eventually resigned, and these other flunkies similarly had no idea what was going on, and in some cases did not even know that they had been appointed.

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The clones, which have been genetically modified to make them more obedient, are seen by the movie's heroes as little more than another military technology, like battle droids or light sabers. (The clone army apparently plays a role in the downfall of the heroic Jedi Knights, even turning one, Anakin Skywalker, into the evil Darth Vader.) These clone warriors are the ultimate mindless flunkies.

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