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...Ebbers was ripe for the kind of transformation that business legends are made of. In a Days Inn diner in Hattiesburg, Miss., goes WorldCom lore, Ebbers and some partners scratched out on a napkin a plan for a phone company that would resell WATS long-distance service to local businesses. The name for the company--Long Distance Discount Services--supposedly came from a helpful waitress. "The only experience Bernie had operating a long-distance carrier was that he used the phone," recalls an investor in the original enterprise, which changed its name to WorldCom...
...House of Harrods." His only marriage, to former model Suzanne Gregard, ended after eight months in 1987. In the past decade he had been linked romantically, if usually briefly, to a lengthy list of beautiful and often famous women. A recent flame, model Kelly Fisher, added to the Dodi lore by holding a press conference in Los Angeles this summer to show off a sapphire ring that she said was an engagement ring and to charge that she had been jilted in favor of Diana. Fisher, who also used the press conference to announce a $440,000 lawsuit for breach...
Epluribus unum, one nation out of many individuals, the status we enjoy as an economic powerhouse, stems, so the American lore goes, from a firm commitment to personal gain blinds us from seeing a responsiblity to our fellow citizens and, through the state, to ourselves. As Harvard president emeritus Derek C. Bok writes in his most recent book, The State of the Nation, "[T]he United States is constantly at risk of having its people regard their government merely as a service which they purchase with their taxes and which they are entitled to complain about loudly when it does...
Religious lore is full of men and women whose hearts turn spontaneously toward God--legions of Pauls thrown to the ground by the power of newfound faith. But in the real world, souls have always been won retail, at tent revivals and by door-to-door evangelists. The state of the art in missionary work today is "church planting," the grafting of new congregations--often immigrant or ethnic ones--onto existing churches. No city's religious establishment has pursued church planting more passionately than St. Louis'. But the city's church-planting story carries an ambivalent message: while the outreach...
This observation is more or less true as well for two of this summer's potential movie blockbusters: Men in Black, an inventive action-comedy loosely based on lore about mysterious dark-suited agents who harass people who've seen UFOs; and the more solemn Contact, based on the Carl Sagan novel and said to be, in the words of its director Bob Zemeckis, the rare alien movie "rooted in true scientific believability." "We've done more for them than they do for us," says Price of Hollywood. A handsome, weather-beaten man with surprisingly still, pale blue eyes...