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Boris Berezovsky, reports the paper, one of Russia's richest and most ruthless businessmen and a former Yeltsin financial backer, has emerged as one of Yeltsin and Kiriyenko's biggest obstacles (Kiriyenko is also opposed by the Communists).
When Howard Carter peered through the dusty air of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and, in his own words, “wonderful things” met his eyes, he confirmed the immeasurable wealth of the Pharaohs, and when the backer of the dig, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly only a few months later, vox populi blamed it on the curse of the Pharaohs mummy — and Hollywood was quick to feed our fantasies.
New Hampshire State Senator Lou Allesandro, a Gore backer, was quoted yesterday in the Manchester Union-Leader saying that Bradley recently changed his position from pro-voucher to anti-voucher "for political expediency."
In the Indonesia case, however, there is as yet no evidence that President Clinton did anything about his backer James Riady's concerns over trade with China and Indonesia beyond listening to them.
He said he was starting a new company called eVentures in partnership with the Tokyo-based Softbank, the world's biggest backer of Internet-related businesses.