As the song goes, "Life is a cabaret, old chum, " and that appears to have been the case for this cast as well.

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Joel Lovell, formerly of GQ, got hired by his old chum and new New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren, after an easygoing lunch.

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"We always felt like we grew up on the other side of the tracks, " says an old chum, Howard Schultz, who has known Blankfein since high school.

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In June Dr Mahathir brought an old chum and former finance minister, Daim Zainuddin, into the cabinet with an economic brief that has clipped Mr Anwar's wings.

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With the prospects of Mitt Romney (an old chum of Mr Netanyahu who seems joined at the hip with him over Iran) apparently fading, those concerns had increased to the extent that the Israeli prime minister had been warned repeatedly that if he did issue an order to attack, he would be on his own.

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When even an old regulatory chum says that he cannot see any problems looming, Buttonwood's warning bells start to ring.

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Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is expected to have a few questions about a Los Angeles Times report that she made frequent prison visits to her old school chum Webster Hubbell, who has since announced that he will no longer cooperate with Starr's investigation.

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To dig up still more money for his 1998 campaign, he turned to an old law school chum, hedge-fund manager James J.

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