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...most notable has been Sidgmore, 46, a weekend rock guitarist who masterminded last week's AOL deal. Sidgmore worked out the three-way swap with AOL chairman Steve Case at a breakfast meeting in July. Voila! WorldCom now controls the networking divisions of CompuServe, AOL and the Microsoft Network, which was already in the fold. Yet neither Sidgmore nor Ebbers plans to stop adding to their empire anytime soon. Asked whether WorldCom will continue its voraciously acquisitive ways, Ebbers responds with typical bluntness, "Are we alive...
Someone in the publishing industry has sauteed up an ingenious scheme: spear a celebrity for a book deal, cut ghostwriter costs by churning out recipes instead of paragraphs and voila!, instant profit. Riverhead editor Mary South puts it in gentler terms: "Cookbooks are a great way for celebrities to do a biography without having to do a tell-all." South will help Patti LaBelle, who was been known to rustle up a mean meal on the road, dish out her culinary secrets next year. Even a reed-thin celebrity who was never seen in an apron will...
...couldn't figure out how to reduce joblessness without flaring inflation. The 1990s finally revealed the secret: end the cold war; slash military spending. Pare annual federal budget deficits. Have a central-bank chairman who can deftly apply the monetary brakes to hold inflation down without killing the expansion. Voila! The healthiest economy in recent memory...
...cream lovers expect Ben & Jerry's Homemade not only to clean up the lake but to rid marshmallows of their faint animal by-products too. And, whoa. In this case, anyway, Ben & Jerry's had the answer: it uses a substitute for marshmallow gelatin, which comes from bones. Voila, a loyal customer...
...Voila!--"Le Page du Ginz...