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Foday Sankoh, an important rebel leader, has been given the plum job that was promised him, controlling the country's diamond and bauxite resources.

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He headed operations at data communications hardware maker Juniper Networks for a year before jumping to Microsoft and taking over the plum job of running the division that oversees Office.

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Using her Republican connections, she got a job, a plum of a job: chairwoman of the state's oil and gas watchdog commission.

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