His new thriller, "The Pelican Brief," takes aim at powerful Washington lawyers who front for a homicidal oil billionaire.

But Mr. Moss, even though he follows the party line about oil billionaires, shows a certain respect for the Company.

He noted that Roman Abramovich, a Russian oil billionaire, was embraced last year upon his purchase of Chelsea, another top English team.

It was built in the seventies by one of the Middle-Eastern oil billionaires.

Residents of the building include David Koch, the oil billionaire; Victoria Newhouse, wife of the publisher S .

Looked like a cross between an idealized concept of a US Senator and some bloated plutocrat, oil billionaire or something like that.

But Adnan Khashoggi, the oil billionaire, said he had bought the Netherlands Antilles company from Mr. Marcos.

David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser, said, "What they don't say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens' movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires."

The oil billionaire and collector J. Paul Getty bought the sculpture in 1951.

We can forgive the lack of professional integrity on this occasion because we're dealing with arab oil billionaires who are ruining football.