Chief among them was oil and media tycoon Boris Berezovsky, the Kremlin's top power broker.
It might be just enough to make him a power broker, to give him influence.
My vote for villain is Larry Sonsini, the Silicon Valley lawyer and power broker.
But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.
He has now written a book called Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft's "Secret Power Broker", which details his 20 years at Microsoft.
Other possibles include Derby runner-up Golden Soul, Mylute (fifth in the Derby, third in the Preakness), Freedom Child, Power Broker and Code West.
Russian dissident Boris Berezovsky was a former Kremlin power broker whose fortunes went into dramatic decline as Vladimir Putin established himself as Russian president.
He in many ways defined what it meant to be a Russian oligarch, becoming a power broker, political operator and businessman all at once.
Lopez had long been a Democratic power broker in his borough.
As one of the few financial victors in online news media, she is also a de facto policy maker and a new kind of power broker.
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.
Cuts in "Plan Colombia" and the failure in Washington to ratify the FTA probably was an impetus in convincing the government to request help from a dangerous power broker.
It represents the biggest chunk and has helped to cement long-term relations between the U.S. and Egyptian military, which since the 1952 revolution has been the country's key power broker.
And regardless of which of the many scenarios materialize after Karzai's current (and final) presidential term ends, one thing is clear: he will remain a major power broker in Afghanistan.
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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.
He was known for his unflagging support of the state's national laboratories and military installations, and he became a power broker for his work on the federal budget and energy policy.
Through its sponsorship of Hizbullah, Syria has become the primary power broker in Lebanon, even as it is heralded by the likes of Kouchner and Solana for its supposed noninterference in Lebanese politics.
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.
The Hollywood power broker has lately turned his marketing skills on China, which is expected to surpass the U.S. box office by the end of the decade, driven by a boom in cinemas across the country.
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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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.
In Iraq, this dangerous penchant for negotiations is what enabled Muqtada al-Sadr's pro-Iranian, pro-Hizbullah Mahdi Army to emerge from its April 2004 offensive against Coalition forces intact and free to become the power broker in Shii'te politics that it is today.
What's less well known is the existence of a new kind of power broker on Pennsylvania Avenue, backroom power players who confront these forces and who strive to vault over them and, indeed, sometimes even succeed in doing so in making Washington work.
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.
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.
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