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...regional diversity, is representing one’s own home state. As an Alabamian, I’ve caught my share of flak thanks to its clichéd backwardness, Ten Commandments ex-judge Roy Moore and bottom-feeding position out of 49 states (God bless ye, Mississippi) in just about every indicator of statewide health...
Move over, Martha. As the troubled phone company now known as MCI prepares to emerge from the brink, its erstwhile commander, Bernard Ebbers, may be headed for the pen. Ebbers is the folksy former Mississippi high school basketball coach who hatched WorldCom in 1983 and, through a series of audacious takeovers, built it into the second largest U.S. long-distance operator. But his single-minded pursuit of growth and, in the end, his manic desperation to please Wall Street led him to mastermind, according to his federal criminal indictment last week, an accounting fraud estimated by some experts...
...wealth. Yet he tapped WorldCom's cash reserves for hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to buy even more stock plus a huge ranch in British Columbia, a Georgia yacht builder and a minor league hockey team. (He still owns a golf club and a lumber business in Mississippi.) To keep WorldCom afloat, prosecutors charge, Ebbers allegedly resorted to a combination of hype, hidden expenses and phantom revenue to inflate earnings by all those billions and perpetuate the illusion that WorldCom was worth its lofty share price. When the hoax finally emerged, the stock went into a slow-motion...
...desire to control what the public hears also often leads the company to engage in tactics even more blatantly inimical to the democratic process. When the Democratic National Committee attempted to run an advertisement criticizing Rep. Charles “Chip” Pickering Jr, R-Miss., two Mississippi Clear Channel stations refused to run the ad. Incidentally, Pickering sits on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, which is responsible for overseeing the telecommunications industry—including Clear Channel’s operations...
...furious dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warned that the ruling would nonetheless lead to challenges not only to state laws that ban same-sex marriage but also to those that prohibit "adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality and obscenity." And, for that matter, says Don Wildmon, president of the Mississippi-based American Family Association, polygamy. "I wonder why there were no three people wanting to marry in San Francisco," he says. "Why two? Why not three...