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...part because Texas is the vestige of an independent nation. Texas proclaimed itself a republic, not a state, 150 years ago. The Texan's ancestral memory is strong. The state's highways are lined with historical markers, as well as with antilittering signs that sound just the right note of truculent nationalism: don't mess with texas. Texans cherish a sort of dual citizenship. They joke about it. Lone Star calls itself the national beer of Texas. It is hard to imagine a man from Chicago calling himself an Illinoisan in the way that a man from Dallas will call...
...bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah...
Despite the SEC's stepped-up enforcement, many Wall Streeters believe that the investment world is still rife with insider trading. They note that in scores of mergers, including General Electric-RCA, Capital Cities-ABC and Philip Morris-General Foods, a run-up in the price of the target company's shares proves that many investors bought stock based on advance knowledge of the deal...
...pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice or perish within the week, acquiesced, and then went mad. "He looked in the mirror one day," the novelist's mother recalled, "and couldn't see himself. And he began to scream." A siren of Britain's Roaring Twenties, Heiress Nancy Cunard appears...
...Nuremberg were many. His relations with the powers that were do not seem to have been easy. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and departed for Cracow, in Poland, where he worked for nearly 20 years. In 1503, after getting back to Nuremberg, he forged a promissory note to extract money from a businessman he believed had cheated him; Stoss, by now a man in his late 50s or early 60s, was branded on both cheeks for that. In later years he was in and out of dungeon and lived under a cloud of civic disapproval, while Durer, some...