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But he also relishes being the confidant of the leader of the world's last superpower.
He was the lover of Ingrid Bergman and the confidant of Hemingway and Picasso.
"A griot is the friend, the confidant of his djatigui [patron].
They said I was the confidant of Mullah Omar, whom I have never met".
The countertenor Rachid Ben Abdeslam, also in a Met debut, brings vocal sheen and comic antics as the eunuch Nirenus, the confidant of Cleopatra and Ptolemy.
Arthur Ransome had been both the confidant of senior Bolsheviks and an agent of M16, while simultaneously reporting on revolutionary Russia for the Manchester Guardian.
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However, there are persistent reports that Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the former confidant of Tony Blair, the ambassador to the US, may be replaced after three years at the post.
Libyan rebels planned to join the talks, but have bristled at the inclusion of Moussa Koussa, the former confidant of Muammar Qaddafi who fled to Britain last month.
To prepare for the role of Maurice - the trusted confidant of Caesar, played by British actor Andy Serkis - Ms Konoval studied videos of the animals and read "every book that had been written" about the apes.
In these dialogues, Judas emerges as the close confidant of Jesus, who tells him: "You will exceed all of them.
"We had no regular contact," he said, adding, in reference to his interrogators: "They thought I was the personal confidant of bin Laden.
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