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...surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member said it was "under active consideration," and according to one source, the company may solicit a list of outside candidates as early as this week. At the same...
Learning to Change. Sometimes young people have been so deprived of positive activities that they need coaching when they are about to enter unfamiliar work environments. In Las Vegas, Jocelyn Oats, youth coordinator at the Nevada Partners program, starts sessions by having everyone fold a napkin. "When they are done, they see that everyone folds them differently," she says. "I make them do this so they will understand that their employer may want them to do things differently than they are used...
Fire season lit up again across the western U.S., swallowing tens of thousands of acres in California, Arizona, Nevada and seven other states. The most dramatic -- and costly -- of these blazes usually occur in the overbuiltcanyons of Southern California. This year is no exception: more than a dozen homes there have gone up in smoke as of tonight. parparparpar
Forced by a federal court order to abide by an 1872 mining law, Interior ( Secretary Bruce Babbitt signed over nearly 2,000 acres of federally owned land in Nevada for a mere $9,765 to a Canadian-based company, enabling it to mine what could amount to billions of dollars of gold on the property free of any royalties. A disgusted Babbitt urged Congress to speed up an overhaul of the antiquated law to end such sales...
While the Racial Justice Act's fine points are steeped in legal arcana, the bill inspired fierce rhetoric in the Senate last week. The act, said Orrin Hatch of Nevada, "has nothing to do with racial justice and everything to do with abolishing the death penalty" by employing "unreliable and manipulable statistical quota." To the act's defense came Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois -- with statistics. Since 1988, she said, the government has sought the death penalty for drug kingpins in 36 cases involving four whites, four Hispanics and 28 blacks. Said Moseley-Braun: "Keep in mind that...