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MCI Nearing Rebirth In Spite Of Protests By Competitors

By Robert Shoenberger

A year after WorldCom announced it had massively inflated its earnings, it is preparing to emerge from bankruptcy as a company with some of the lowest operating costs in the industry

Orie Barron, an accounting professor at Penn State University, said judges in SEC cases don't often ask for harsher penalties than prosecutors seek, but very little is normal about the MCI case.

"It's the sort of thing that can happen in high-profile cases, and (competitors) are probably hoping to get public opinion on their side," Barron said

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