Person of the Week

Person of the Week
THE NEW, NEW BUST He built one of the world's biggest long-distance carriers the old-fashioned waygobbling up all the companies he could. But when classic overreaching killed Worldcom's stock price, ex-CEO Bernard Ebbers was left owing more than $366 million in loans to his own company

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"Given the exceptional atmosphere of the event, we must face the possibility of unwanted babies fathered by foreigners who rape our women."
TAKAYOSHI KONNO,
Local politician, on Japan's fears of British hooliganism at the World Cup

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