Gorbachev and Louis Vuitton.

Former member of the nomenklatura, and leader of the communist bastion that was the USSR, peddling luxury goods.

From the International Herald Tribune: "...Gorbachev ...[chose] the backdrop for the photo, a wall that Ronald Reagan once challenged him to tear down."

Mikhail Gorbachev and his Louis Vuitton

[Gorbachev] [Reagan] [Berlin Wall]

Bureaucracy.

I'm not making this up! From Der Spiegel:

You don't actually need a brain to work in a tax office. A French civil servant has been found to have a huge cavity filled with fluid in his head -- yet lives a completely normal life.

brain bureaucrat tax