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For alcoholics, the only way to stop the havoc alcohol causes is, of course, to quit drinking. That is easier said than done. The main barrier to ending the torment is the alcoholic's characteristic, and usually adamant, denial that any problem exists. Mary, 61, who has not taken a...
Day after day, students in cities from Kunming to Shanghai to Peking marched through the streets waving banners vaguely demanding "freedom" and % "democracy." And day after day the central government in Peking reacted with total silence, blacking out all news of the protests. Then, last week, the government finally decided...
Less and less able to cope, Willy has taken to working in his "garden," a tiny patch of dirt behind his house in choking Brooklyn in the middle of the night. He is trying to plant something, he yells up to his frantic wife and angry, embarrassed sons; he wants...
The hero of The Second Coming, Percy's fifth novel, is emphatically both. Will Barrett is a middle-aged version of the younger character who starred in The Last Gentleman. He has inherited a fortune ("About 50 or 60 million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early...
When he turned 75 this spring, Topel, as church regulation requires, submitted his resignation, only to be named apostolic administrator of the diocese until such a time as a bishop could be found to replace him. So far, none has been forthcoming. He still works a full day at his...