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...fault. It's better to say this kid has ADHD than to say this kid drives everybody up the wall." For adults, the diagnosis may provide an excuse for personal or professional failures, observes Richard Bromfield, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School. "Some people like to say, 'The biological devil made...
...apart, but the black politicians, thugs and businessmen they encounter are just as inventively corrupt as any alderman back in Indiana. At one point a wily middleman recommends that Boone employ a seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young...
...chairman Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s. Clinton's fortitude is even more admirable, since Greenspan is trying to avoid a future bout of inflation, not cure a current one. And according to Woodward, Clinton's political advisers all think Greenspan is the devil incarnate, so Clinton gets extra points for resisting them...
...novels (Ticket to Ride) -- Potter did see things under the aspect of eternity. Novelist Julian Barnes aptly described him as "a Christian socialist with a running edge of apocalyptic disgust." Christian, yes, in residue. Though Potter gave ecclesiastics the willies with his God play (Son of Man) and his Devil play (Brimstone and Treacle), he could still recite, as meaningfully as if it were a pop standard, the words to an old hymn: "Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown?" Socialist, yes, decrying British mercantilism that turns everyone "from a citizen into a consumer. And politics...
Mormons believe in a form of spiritual pre-existence -- though not in reincarnation. They have a complex system of the afterlife as well -- there is a three-tier realm of glory with the highest echelon reserved for believers, the next for well-meaning nonbelievers, the last for the devil and his angels. Adherents worried about the fate of their nonbeliever ancestors can have deceased relatives baptized vicariously. Thus Mormons zealously compile genealogies so all ancestors can eventually be baptized. Meanwhile, males must become lay "priests" and serve as missionaries (currently numbering more than...