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...sell long-distance service. He has since put up numbers worthy of company pitchman Michael Jordan. Anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would have a holding worth $2,400 today. No telecom company has done better. WorldCom has rung up that performance by connecting an astonishing range of deals. The largest was last year's $12.5 billion acquisition of MFS Communications, a local phone company that had just acquired UUNet. Yet WorldCom remains a little-known empire that serves mainly corporate clients. "Frankly, a lot of their own customers still...
...addition, my brief discussions of Lizzie Borden and William Faulkner, made me remember how luxurious interaction with teachers can be. Forgetting my status on the bottom rung of the Harvard academic ladder, I traded scholastic insights with a professor, something I had never anticipated doing as a first-year. I was even accepted to one of the seminars...
...extremely rude things. Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their messages (which to my surprise many callers, including my mother, did). This went on for several days until my wife and I figured out that something was wrong ("Hey...why hasn't the phone rung since Wednesday?") and got our phone service restored...
...even Beijing to give lectures about the world beyond Tuonan township. "Only if we liberate our minds can we liberate the country," says Li. Shi Meirong, 52, who lives in the hill village of Lingnan, would like to believe her, but Shi is still on the very first rung of economic development. "Only when you have money can you be master of your fate," she says. "When you're just struggling to get by, it's hard to have bigger visions...
From its stone fortress overlooking Rock Creek Park, the Behl clan has steadily gained influence since 1916, when Senator Adolph Behl aspired to become Vice President of the U.S. His failure to get the nomination left his wife doubly disappointed: first because she was denied a higher rung on the social ladder; second because her husband could not even fulfill his ambition to become second best...