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...Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...
...going to sing on Rosie's show, to change some lyrics to a song from Annie Get Your Gun. O'Donnell denies she made this request, but she also denies her desire to change the musical's title to Annie Get Your Wit Sharpened for a Rootin,' Tootin' Debate...
...Hittite princesses were Ramesses' seventh and eighth wives; he had taken his first two, Nefertari and Istnofret, at least a decade before he ascended to the throne. Then there was also a harem. "If he got tired of huntin', shootin', rootin' and tootin'," says Liverpool's Kitchen, "he could wander through the garden and blow a kiss at one of these ladies." By the time he took over from Seti, Ramesses had at least five sons and two daughters. One of Istnofret's sons was Merneptah, Ramesses' 13th boy, who eventually succeeded him (the older ones are presumed to have...
...sympathetic manager of Cardullo's, Victor M. Chavez, was quoted in Monday's Crimson: "It doesn't make any sense. But we have to follow the law." "We already have people upset," he explained. You're darn tootin'--I'm one of them...
...fair, I will say that this album is good--real good. Even great. Great in a peaceful, easy way. Not in the blockbuster, gangbuster, rootin'-tootin', anthemic terms of Born In The U.S.A, terms that defy even the terms that I've just used. That album was larger than life, larger than Springsteen, and therefore it made Springsteen larger than himself...