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SENTENCED. BERNIE EBBERS, 63, former CEO of WorldCom, convicted in March of orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled the telecommunications giant; to 25 years in prison, the latest and harshest in a string of recent sentences for white-collar executives; in New York City. Under federal guidelines, Ebbers, who maintained his innocence and plans to appeal, must serve at least 85%, or 21 years, of the term, making it all but a life sentence...
...tumultuous years, during which time a speech code was a very real possibility. But he does not stick religiously to the plot: as Thomas introduces different professors and administrators, he often gives extensive histories of their legal and political careers. It is in these biographical sketches that he is harshest...
Pilot John Testrake of TWA's Flight 847, which was hijacked last June by Shi'ite gunmen. Testrake personified the word professionalism under the harshest conditions. Wayne L. Morris Albuquerque...
...Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with the North is denounced as a prop for Kim Jong Il's shaky regime. China, which treats refugees as illegal immigrants and repatriates them to face a nightmarish fate, is criticized for ignoring basic Geneva Convention obligations. The United Nations gets the harshest criticism. Becker spends a chapter cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility of those that accused Kim Jong Il of allowing millions to die and made...
...Even the harshest in-house critics cannot argue with the numbers: the CBS Evening News remains the highest-rated of the three network shows. And if the network's star attraction, Dan Rather, is unhappy with management (as some insiders contend), he says only nice things about his bosses in public and obviously approves of how the Evening News has evolved. To a certain degree, all three networks' news divisions are victims of success. Once revenue losers, they started to make big money within the past decade and thus began to be treated more like businesses. Profits, for better...