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Article: For a change of pace, head to the Golden Isles. (Backstage Pass).(Golden Isles, Georgia)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 3, 2002
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The day the news broke about Bernie Ebbers stepping down as WorldCom CEO, I was having dinner with a diverse group of business folks in a hunting lodge on a private island off the coast of Georgia.
The news was huge, especially to us Mississippians, but no one knew about it. Yet. The only news source on the 10,000-acre island, which has a staff of 20 and accommodates only 30 visitors, was the early morning edition of The New York Times, which had been laminated in a leather-bound journal before breakfast was served.
But Ebber's departure was inconveniently timed, and we would have to wait for the next day's edition. In contrast to the instant information ...