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Rest in Peace

BY Heath Row | 12-15-2003 | 3:08 PM
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John W. Sidgmore, a Washington, DC-area technology pioneer and former WorldCom Inc. leader who helped uncover accounting fraud at that telecom giant, died last Thursday. After helping to build small UUNet Technologies Inc. into a $4 billion company in 1999 -- and a major part of the Net's backbone -- Sidgmore was tapped to head WorldCom following the discovery of financial mismanagement.