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...situation and calls for reinforcements from other citizens of the Republic of Texas had been posted, was taken down Wednesday afternoon. Apparently responding to McLaren's call, seven heavily armed men carrying Republic of Texas citizenship cards were arrested Wednesday at a truck stop 70 miles from his Davis Mountain hideout. Charged with possession of marijuana, the men were also carrying five semi-automatic rifles, a shotgun, a .45-caliber pistol and several hunting knives. Local officials fear that more secessionists...
...they are granted or project their future worth.) On the other hand, by the time he fully cashes out these options--a mere year's worth--they could be worth more than half a billion dollars. And that is in addition to salary, bonus and free rides at Space Mountain. Counting the options, his 1996 compensation comes to $204 million. While Disney stockholders have done well under Eisner's long reign, Eisner himself has done even better. "Shareholders are starting to wonder whether it is just too much," says David Leach, executive vice president of Compensation Resource Group, a consulting...
...jagged peaks climb to over nine feet, as Lichtenstein vertically stacks over 10 different dot screens. The most captivating moments are the points where the screens overlap, intersect or dissolve into one another. Here Lichtenstein again demonstrates his masterful visual economy, using the exact same dots to signify mist, mountain or perhaps both at the same time. This ambiguity leads to a spatial confusion and mystery as convincing and sophisticated as any of the real Song Dynasty paintings hanging in the galleries upstairs...
...rivalry of the guiding outfits encouraged recklessness. Hall's successful Adventure Consultants was being crowded by newer ventures, notably the Mountain Madness service of Scott Fischer, a skilled American climber. There was powerful pressure for them to ignore their turnaround times, beyond which it was foolish to continue heading upward. Fischer told Krakauer that if Pittman reached the summit, she was certain to boast about it on New York talk shows...
Krakauer, a thoughtful man and a fine writer (his Into the Wild, a report of a wilderness death in Alaska, was one of the best nonfiction books of 1996), says the ratio of misery to pleasure on Everest was greater than on any other mountain he has climbed. He draws no ringing conclusions from the disaster, although he thinks that banning bottled oxygen might keep weaker climbers off the mountain...