To regain power, the former socialist has turned into a cynical political boss, chummy with corrupt reactionaries.
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That investment has paid off for Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, the president of Brazil's Senate and Bahia's powerful political boss.
This grandstanding was begun by Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, a tough conservative political boss from Bahia, in the backward north-east.
These began with a videotape showing a manager at the federal postal service taking a bribe, allegedly on behalf of his political boss, a government ally.
The movie also stars a sullen, stolid Leonardo DiCaprio as a young Irish immigrant eager to avenge the death of his father, Cameron Diaz as a prostitute and pickpocket, Liam Neeson as a fallen Irish leader, and Jim Broadbent as the corrupt political boss William Tweed.
Power is yet further divided, since Sonia Gandhi, Congress's boss, influences political strategy behind the scenes.
That would be good news for Halliburton's current management and maybe even for Iraq, but a political headache for its former boss.
Despite the lurid rumours, Mr Anwar's true crimes are probably his perceived political ambition and his differences with his boss over how to handle the economy, which shrank by 6.8% in the second quarter of this year.
Springsteen and his E Street Band opened their Wrecking Ball Tour to enthusiastic reviews in Brisbane, the hometown of Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan, who revealed in a speech last year that The Boss had long been his political inspiration.
PRI, says a mid-level official, you had to follow your boss loyally wherever he went, according to political tides.
But there were also blue-uniformed factory workers, given a day off to attend the protest by their boss, perhaps as a favour for a political chum who wants to keep up the pressure on General Chavalit.
Observers note that when the last wave of major unrest shook Tibet — in 1989 — the region's Communist Party boss did not hesitate to unleash a harsh military and political crackdown.
Only in 1576 did Jean Bodin, a French political thinker, assure Europe that the king, and he alone, was boss.
The reality is that the reforms of the early 1990s were pushed through by his then boss, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, who put up all his political capital to get them through.
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The fire inspectors' ultimate boss is Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, who belongs to the opposite political camp to Mr Berezovsky.
The controversial Communist Party boss known for leading a revival of Maoist ideology and recently embroiled in a high-profile political intrigue has been ousted from his post.
The other third of the job, boss of the Cabinet Office (which helps make and implement government policy), will go to a political insider.
Rom Kulleh, a political aide who flew in a helicopter over the river shortly after the accident, said he and his state legislator boss saw the overturned boat.
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