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...Phil Anschutz, the billionaire founder and former chairman of Qwest Communications, could be the next corporate chieftain forced into the congressional spotlight on boardroom greed. Anschutz has thus far avoided a hearing by privately convincing investigators he had no role in his company's day-to-day operations--including deals in which the Denver telephone company allegedly booked phantom revenue. But Qwest's ex-CEO Joseph Nacchio, in little-noticed testimony last week before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he had consulted Anschutz on all major decisions. Now committee staff members plan to question Anschutz again...
...four sounds heard - a drum slamming, "Bum. Ba-bum. Pow!" with the clock of castanets on the fourth beat - tell the audience that the music aims directly at pastiche, for those are the first four notes of "Be My Baby," the Jeff Barry-Ellie Greenwich song from which producer Phil Spector and arranger Jack Nitzsche created a sonic masterpiece for the Ronettes. (Martin Scorsese recognized the power of this opening: he used it at the start of "Mean Streets.") A few bars later, the first syllables uttered in the show - a cutting "Wuh. Uh. Oh." for the song "Good Morning...
Brown coach Phil Estes admitted as much, saying that his game plan was to “drive it down and keep [Harvard’s] offense off the field.” The Bears stuck to that strategy in the first quarter, running the ball 13 times in 20 plays and eating up 11:32 of the quarter’s 15 minutes...
...Brown Coach Phil Estes...
...made his share of plays, but for the most part I don’t think Carl Morris was anywhere near the reason Harvard won that football game,” said Brown coach Phil Estes. “Not to take anything away from Morris, but Fitzpatrick was the difference...