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...wallet do you need to knock the $100 billion-a-year local-telephone industry into a new shape? J. Shelby Bryan, 51, CEO of ICG Communications, Inc., of Englewood, Colo., is trying to find out. Bryan, a former Golden Gloves boxer as well as a banker, entrepreneur and corporate-turnaround artist, took charge of ICG, then known as IntelCom Group, in 1995. A good time to jump in, given the impending passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which ordered the Baby Bell phone companies to end their monopolies of local service. Now Bryan is trying to outsprint other...
Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/ Capitol), Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label "promising," which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around. The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that's been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like...
James Monroe High School was in such bad shape that New York City Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines decided to close the school in the fall...
...publications have the attitude of 'what have you done for me lately?,'" said co-captain Ted Shergalis. "We as a team don't emphasize the fall season. Crew is a nine-month sport so the fall is a chance to have fun and get back into shape. There was no despair in our hearts...
Early season losses give a team two choices: shape up or ship out. The Crimson chose to use early defeats as motivation to turn the season around and establish a new, winning trend in the Harvard men's volleyball program...