In truth the king has always been capable of showing his displeasure at coups when itsuitedhim, by rallying troops or by dragging his feet in accepting their outcome.
Berezovsky denied it, but in the Abramovich case itsuitedhim to change his story and say the opposite so his evidence now became that he did have those close links with Yeltsin, and he claimed that that is what made him so valuable to Abramovich.
Sources tell TIME that Clinton and his advisers had practiced a dozen set-pieces--short speeches about the ideological vendetta of the Paula Jones lawyers, appeals to Americans' sense of privacy and fair play--and that he treated the prosecutors like reporters at a press conference, ignoring their questions when itsuitedhim, making sure to get his message out.