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摘要

Unlike the readers of Network World, Gordon Gekko never held responsibility for providing telecom services to thousands of employees scattered across the globe. So the proudly amoral movie character played by Michael Douglas in "Wall Street" was free to utter his most famous line — "Greed is good. It has marked the upward surge of man." — without losing any sleep over the ramifications of conducting mergers and acquisitions business absent any consideration other than the bottom line. Network executives do not enjoy such a luxury. Which brings us to the interminable tug-of-war between Verizon and Qwest over who gets MCI.