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...detected a pattern??in your story on the fall of WorldCom's former CEO Bernie Ebbers and other corporate fraudsters who may be facing hard time [March 28]. You reported that "Ebbers said he was too ignorant about accounting to detect the financial crimes of his underlings." John Rigas, CEO of Adelphia Communications, "claimed he was CEO in name only." And Richard Scrushy, CEO of HealthSouth Corp., "thought his financial officers, though aggressive, were operating within the confines of the law." It is stunning how men who claim to be so clueless came to run huge companies and earn salaries...
...delegates' week was falling into a pattern???interminable night sessions, sleep, afternoons of caucuses. Although Miami Beach is designed for leisure and indolence, it was put to remarkably industrious use. Some delegates plunged into swimming pools and the Fontaine-bleau's Boom Boom Room, some took in the Eden Roc's "Love Machine" erotica or listened to Pearl Williams, a road-company Sophie Tucker, at the Place Pigalle. But mostly they talked earnestly among themselves, taking endless notes. They seemed to treat Miami Beach as a curious rococo phenomenon, something beside the point...
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