Is this the former Kremlin power-broker, known mostly for political intrigues and murky business deals?
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Compared with the prime minister, an economics professor, Mr Berlusconi looks every inch the professional Roman power-broker.
Yet even in the tech industry shared leadership works best when there is a power-broker behind the scenes.
He established himself as a power-broker in the hawkish party rather than a star in his own right.
Another, the controversial godman and power-broker Chandraswami, said he could not recall what happened around the time of the assassination.
The Baillie of Spynie, John Innes, a local power-broker signed her up.
He eventually handed the job to Daim Zainuddin, a wealthy power-broker and long-time ally who had helped to devise the controls as part of a wider recovery plan.
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The episode underlines Russia's continuing role as a regional power-broker.
In practice, the distinction between warnings and war could vanish from sight if the conflict develops into a broader test of wills between the western alliance and Serbia's power-broker.
Mr Prescott's role as a power-broker and counsellor smoothed the often strained relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and also helped ensure a trouble-free transition from one leader to the other.
In the space of a few years in the 1990s, he went from being a clever mathematician to a powerful business tycoon and then a shadowy Kremlin power-broker and Russian media magnate.
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For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.
His approval ratings have dipped, and the Washington power-broker has been spending rather more time in Texas than he used to: opening a new office, announcing money for new roads, posing for photographs to celebrate federal funding for new military hardware.
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After a political shake-up in November, the Democratic Party of Albanians, led by a veteran power-broker, Arben Xhaferi, became the main partner of the governing party, a movement that traces its history to the Slav-nationalist struggles of a century ago but has since become tamer.
Mr Rafsanjani, still a power-broker as head of two bodies that are meant to adjudicate between branches of government, took the unusual step of firing off a long, heated public letter to Mr Khamenei, declaring that unless the supreme leader acted to ensure a fair vote, trouble would ensue.
If that happens he will be a power broker - he is promising a referendum on the euro and believes the current austerity measures are ruining Italy.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- African leaders said Monday they have failed to broker a power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's president and opposition leader and urged neighboring countries to help end Zimbabwe's crisis.
Ozawa still controls the largest block of DPJ votes and continues to act as pre-eminent power broker, despite having had his party membership suspended as punishment for campaign finance law violations.
Mr Ahmadinejad accused all three challengers of ganging up on him, insinuating that they were in the pay of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a cleric and former president, but has long been a behind-the-scenes power broker.
Mr Putin, the best-connected power broker of them all, said last week that he would not enter into any bargains to limit the Yukos investigation, but neither would he extend it into a broader campaign against those who got rich in the 1990s.
Many believe, however, that Gingrich has been replaced as the Capitol's top GOP power broker by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who told the GOPAC gathering on Monday that tax cuts will be high on the legislative agenda.
As leaked to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning, Wall Street and Washington power broker Steven Rattner appears on the verge of walking away from a multi-million bribery scandal with a wrist-slap.
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But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.
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