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Ebbers likes to give the impression that he is about as smart as a fence post. Around the office, his style is faded jeans, cowboy boots and turquoise jewelry. "Our personality is to be very loose. We aren't stuffed- shirt people," he says. His colleagues know him better. "Don't fall for that 'Aw shucks' stuff," says John Sidgmore, WorldCom's cerebral vice chairman and the architect of its strategy for dominating access to the Internet. "Bernie's extremely street smart. Most of all, he has a vision for the company. He's extremely aggressive and simply wants...
Their latest effort, Boom! Boom! Boom!, is a catchy smorgasbord of styles. The album definitely has its roots in rock, revealing influences as diverse as Black Sabbath and the Cowboy Junkies. Although original and often complex, the songs always remain accessible and gracefully simple. As expected, the live show gave many songs an urgency they don't have on the CD. However, the cuts on the album showcased Deal's song writing talent more than the show: studio technology enables Deal to sing her own harmonies, and Todd Mund effectively uses studio guitar tricks to create a colorful portrait...
...Reno was considered something a cowboy when it came to alleged Clinton wrongdoings, which is why Clinton didn't really want Reno back for his second term. Yet he retained her, for that very reason: to prove both his innocence and her impartiality...
...focus for stylistic flair. What starts out as a younger, less bleak '50s version of After Dark My Sweet quickly turns into a meandering hodgepodge, alternating between generic buddy flick (obligatory scene in which cool guy teaches socially inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax, jumping from Capshaw and Vaughn going head to head to Judd...
...conventional thriller about the theft of a nuclear bomb by a Serbian terrorist. Every nation wants to defuse the bomb since the terrorist says he will use it to blow up the United Nations. But in Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...