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.

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Kinder, of course, was president of Enron, having helped Ken Lay, his chum from the University of Missouri, build it up through the 1990s.

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"We always felt like we grew up on the other side of the tracks, " says an old chum, Howard Schultz, who has known Blankfein since high school.

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