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...fiery ex-Marine and an avid mountain climber, Hugh McColl Jr. has scaled the Swiss Alps and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. But his loftiest goal is to lead NationsBank, the Charlotte, N.C., company he has run since 1983, to the summit of American banking. Through more than 50 acquisitions, McColl has turned NationsBank into the third largest U.S. lender (behind Chase Manhattan and Citicorp), with branches in 16 states and $316 billion in assets. And NationsBank stock, which has swelled to $65 billion in total value, makes the bank No. 1 in market capital. "In most of life's endeavors...
...spacecraft photographed an area in which the moon's thin skin of ice appears to have buckled as a result of turbulent water moving just beneath the frozen crust. The crumpling gave the ice a washboard topography made up of a series of parallel cliffs, each the size of Mount Rushmore. Elsewhere the spacecraft spotted bright crustal fractures crisscrossing older, darker ones, suggesting that the ice is being cracked and recracked by similar subsurface sloshing. Still elsewhere the ship photographed a crater whose floor seems to have swelled up from beneath--its central peak pushed above its rim--probably...
...almost too perfect. The volcanic mayor of the new and improved New York City was on his way to speak at Our Lady of Pompeii church. That's Pompeii as in the city buried under the molten lava of Mount Vesuvius. What if Rudy Giuliani, in the middle of his big civility campaign, blew his top as the gathering of seniors digested their lunch of franks and beans...
...that a White House contender might have a roving eye was daring enough in those days. The real twist, however, was that Tracy, the flawed husband, would still make a great President, especially in comparison with the corrupt political professionals around him. For a while, they persuade him to mount the standard campaign of dealmaking, double-talk and false promises, until Hepburn brings him back to his senses and to her. But at that point he drops out of the race. Daring or not, State of the Union played by the unwritten rule: A movie can argue that an errant...
Henry Burton, the campaign aide with a troubled conscience, is lying on a hotel bed watching a movie on TV. It's the last moment of Shane, the Mount Everest of the heroic western, and a desolate little boy is crying to the hillsides, "Shane, Shane! Come back!" Henry cries out in return, "And run for President...