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...Wiley, Loeb professor of biochemistry and biophysics, is declared missing after police find his abandoned rental car on the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn. Wiley was last seen on Nov. 15 at a dinner at the Peabody Hotel, where he was attending the annual meeting of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientific advisory board...
...Throughout my career, public and private, there have been two things I have had an unwavering commitment to,” the Mississippi native began in flawless Southern drawl, giving a Clinton-esque thumbs...
Jackson was won over: yet another of Ebbers' conquests. Ebbers' entrepreneurial vision, friends insist, involved not only stringing together scores of lucrative telecom companies--amassing what is today the nation's second largest long-distance firm--but also helping bridge the racial and economic divides that continue to plague Mississippi. A transplanted Canadian, Ebbers, 60, teaches Sunday school at his Baptist church each week, serves meals to the homeless at Frank's Famous Biscuits in downtown Jackson, Miss., lives modestly in a prefab home, wears jeans and boots to the office and has poured almost all his once considerable fortune...
Right now, though, it's hard to find a Friend of Bernie outside Mississippi. When Ebbers, under pressure from WorldCom's board, announced his resignation last week, the company was sinking under $28 billion in debt, a shriveling stock (which closed at $1.79 last week after peaking at $64.50 in mid-1999) and a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the more than $400 million that WorldCom recently loaned or guaranteed to loan to Ebbers at a charitable 2.15% interest rate. Many disgruntled WorldCom execs were hoping that the new CEO, John Sidgmore, would run the company not from Clinton...
...could be a long ride down for Ebbers, but then he enjoyed a long ride up. Born to a working-class family and reared in Edmonton, Alta., in western Canada, the 6-ft. 4-in. Ebbers worked as a milkman and bar bouncer before winning a basketball scholarship to Mississippi College, a small Baptist school in Jackson. He stayed on in Mississippi as a basketball coach and hotel owner. Then, in 1983, he met a group of investors who had come to technologically deprived central Mississippi to cash in on the federally mandated breakup of AT&T. Meeting...