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“The only experience Bernie had before operating a long-distance company was he used the phone.”
–Carl Aycock, a board member of Worldcom, which has bid $30 billion to buy MCI in what would be the biggest corporate takeover in U.S. history, on chairman Bernard Ebbers, who bought the then-struggling company in 1983.
“He apologized, said he was sorry and was not shooting anybody in particular.”
–Casey King, a high school freshman in Pearl, Miss., who said fellow student Luke Woodham talked to one of the students hit when he began shooting people with a rifle, killing his former girlfriend and another student and wounding five others.
