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That's what 40 high-tech executives, two journalists and one Monty Python alumnus had to decide. After receiving a similar sequence of electronic messages last month, Microsoft executive Marty Behrens referred the matter to in-house counsel. Software entrepreneur Moses Ma called the cops. MGM executive Ken Locker dashed off a formal memo to Dysson: "If there is any type of investigation in this matter, it is my fiduciary responsibility to inform MGM corporate security...
Walter's departure leaves AT&T in the hands of CEO Robert Allen, whose tortured leadership of Ma Bell ignited the search for a successor. His nine-year tenure has been marked by some seemingly desperate attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...
...spectacle, not suicide, what you crave? Then here, for your VCR, are some fictional blazes of glory that put the news channels to shame. James Cagney's classic White Heat might just be the king of them all. Said to be based on Arthur "Doc" Barker and his "Ma," Cagney's mama's boy Cody Jarrett went out, back in 1949, like no one before or since. One of the first strictly setting-driven action movie finales (think of the two Terminators and their convenient ending locales), and also the hardest-boiled. Absolutely required for anyone who thinks "you dirty...
...would certainly take away the advantage now enjoyed by GTE, which has some 20 million local customers scattered across 29 states. GTE (1996 sales: $21.3 billion) was never part of the Ma Bell monopoly, and thus is free to offer long-distance service to its local subscribers without having to open its own markets first. GTE has already signed up more than 1.25 million long-distance subscribers, snatching most of them from...
Ward Ghoury, upper school dean of Buckingham, Browne and Nichols--Brown's alma mater--said the 1993 graduate-"wonder" played first chair in the school orchestra, and has performed with Yo-Yo Ma...