Ebbers: Not dumb enough

The sight of former WorldCom boss Bernie Ebbers trying to hail a taxi outside a New York courtroom amid a phalanx of screaming reporters managed to invoke more sympathy than his entire six-week defence. That suggests just how miserably his «yokel» argument failed to convince the jury of his innocence. There are good reasons for this. First and foremost, it was not very believable. Ebbers may not have been a math whiz, but it is implausible to consider any self-made billionaire – even a paper on...