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...Jackson was won over: yet another of Ebbers' conquests. Ebbers' entrepreneurial vision, friends insist, involved not only stringing together scores of lucrative telecom companies--amassing what is today the nation's second largest long-distance firm--but also helping bridge the racial and economic divides that continue to plague Mississippi. A transplanted Canadian, Ebbers, 60, teaches Sunday school at his Baptist church each week, serves meals to the homeless at Frank's Famous Biscuits in downtown Jackson, Miss., lives modestly in a prefab home, wears jeans and boots to the office and has poured almost all his once considerable fortune...
...station. And so, sadly, does the executive image of Ebbers, who was once the refreshing antithesis of New Economy slick. "I am not a technology dude," he has boasted. But he has slipped nonetheless onto the crowded pyre of '90s corporate excess. "I feel like crying," Ebbers told a Jackson TV station after his resignation last week. "But I am 1,000% convinced in my heart that this is a temporary thing...
...Ebbers, but then he enjoyed a long ride up. Born to a working-class family and reared in Edmonton, Alta., in western Canada, the 6-ft. 4-in. Ebbers worked as a milkman and bar bouncer before winning a basketball scholarship to Mississippi College, a small Baptist school in Jackson. He stayed on in Mississippi as a basketball coach and hotel owner. Then, in 1983, he met a group of investors who had come to technologically deprived central Mississippi to cash in on the federally mandated breakup of AT&T. Meeting at a diner in Hattiesburg, Miss., the group drew...
Perhaps. But his faith in WorldCom was and is classic Ebbers, and many individual shareholders find it endearing. To hold on to more of his WorldCom stock, he recently sold a favorite toy: a 60-ft. yacht he had named Aquasition. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Ocean Springs
...that engineers could almost use their images to raise a sunken sub or keep the Tower of Pisa from falling. This year TIME has won eight Malofiej Infographics Awards, including a rare Gold prize for "Raising the Kursk." The Society for News Design, which gives the prizes, cited chief Jackson Dykman and his staff...