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WorldCom has undergone what court-appointed monitor and former SEC chairman Richard Breeden calls "a steam cleaning from top to bottom," getting rid of virtually every member "of the gang that couldn't shoot straight," including practically the entire finance department. So far, at least, the nation's second largest long-distance company has been able to hold on to the bulk of its big, valuable corporate and government accounts, though many such customers are exploring other options. It has also grabbed some local residential customers from the Baby Bells, reached a partial settlement with the SEC and built...
...oldest of six children and says she "didn't keep house the way Trent was used to." Even in Washington, she once said with a shrug, he vacuums the house "because he doesn't like the way I do it." Lott also re-irons his shirts to get rid of the little wrinkles they pick up on the way back from the cleaners...
...Getting Rid of Saddam...
...Didn't we get rid of smallpox years...
...what happened to him as a child in [reform] school," O'Carroll says. "He had been beaten like an animal, and abused. Carrying out a 'spectacular' was his revenge." But the heist proved to be Cahill's undoing. He hooked up with the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force to get rid of the paintings - and that made him an I.R.A. target. He was killed in 1994, the victim of the last official i.r.a. assassination before the Good Friday peace treaty. All but two of the paintings Cahill stole were recovered. The next man to loot Russborough House is believed by senior...