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...society, such as a new hospital wing, better roads or books for my kid's school. If I want a roof over my head, I have to come up with the money for it. Why should I have to pay for a murderer's amenities for life? TOM BRADFORD McCall, Idaho...
...institutional investors who did vote with I.C.C.R. is New York State comptroller H. Carl McCall, who manages a portfolio that includes 1.2 million Texaco shares. "As shareholders, we have a responsibility to demand an accounting from companies on how they plan to deal with these kinds of issues, because it's clear that if a company has an image of diversity, it's more acceptable to consumers and therefore more profitable," McCall says. "The market reacts negatively to companies where there's a perception that the culture supports discrimination...
...blind date while visiting New York City. She still recalls their romance--from courtship and marriage to dinners with heads of state at their palatial apartment on the Seine--as "breathless, magic." As Reg built his financial empire, first with the leveraged buyout of a radio station, then the McCall Pattern Co. and finally Beatrice, she put her job aside to raise their two daughters. The magic ended when he was stricken by brain cancer...
Hill's largest invention, one entirely in keeping with his apparent determination to make the most radically revisionist western ever, is a backstory shared by Wild Bill and Jack McCall (David Arquette), who history teaches us brought the gunman's career to an end by shooting him in the back. Seems that the former loved and rather crassly left a decent woman named Susannah Moore (the lovely Diane Lane). Seems McCall is her child by a previous liaison. Seems Hill has seen too many movies in which young western gunmen are anachronistically portrayed as if they were modern juvenile delinquents...
Most of the major characters seem to be living in another novel. After his wife's death, McCall and his young daughter move to Italy, where he writes cookbooks and travel articles for American magazines. The job description would be more convincing if he didn't talk like a parody of artsy menu prose: "The marriage of rice and truffle exploded in silent concordat," or "the congruent personalities of the tomato and garlic with the happy green smile of basil...