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...papacy, looked exhausted and let others finish sermons throughout his trip to Azerbaijan and Bulgaria. But even small concessions to his illness can be painfully frustrating for him. When an aide retrieved a handkerchief that fell from his shaky grasp in Bulgaria, at least one reporter saw the Pope grab it back and "pound it hard against his thigh." And so he seems determined to go ahead with a pilgrimage to Canada, Mexico and Guatemala planned for July 23-Aug. 2. Dziwisz may be the only person who can advise John Paul not to jeopardize his health further by making...
...resume is a grab...
...Morris scored on a fade pass from Fitzpatrick to cut the margin to 21-14. One possession later, Morris set up Harvard’s final touchdown—a five yard run by Palazzo—with a 40-yard reception on a spectacular leaping grab...
...America's largest corporations as customers for its vast voice and data network and, after buying IDB, grandly renamed itself WorldCom. It then acquired UUNET, one of the world's largest Internet hookup firms, along with AOL's Internet networking division. Ebbers then brashly outbid British Telecom to grab MCI, using as currency his WorldCom stock, whose value skyrocketed 7,000% during the 1990s...
...when the New Economy, and telecom demand, turned south in 2000, Ebbers' company was caught heavily in debt for a grab bag of telecom companies, many of which were operating pretty much separately and without the efficiencies he had promised. One reason: for all his aw-shucks manner, Ebbers had come to prefer the glamour of dealmaking to the quotidian work of integrating and running a complex business. "At one time we had more than 40 different billing systems," grouses a former high-level WorldCom executive. Ebbers' solution? Keep buying. His latest target was Sprint, but U.S. and European regulators...