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Ethical questions hamstring research too. Any gold-standard study requires that some of the kids who are suffering from a disorder receive no drugs so that they can be compared with the kids who do. But if you believe the medications are helpful, how can you withhold them from a group of symptomatic children who need them...
...there are only two living Americans who own a Nobel Prize for Literature. One is Saul Bellow, and the other is Toni Morrison, whose first novel in five years is called Love (Knopf; 202 pages). With a title like that, you'd better have a big hunk of Swedish gold in your pocket to back...
...desperate attempts to exonerate himself only wind up exposing the venal hypocrisies of the people around him: his mom is obsessed with fancy appliances, an opportunistic TV reporter is obsessed with his career, young women are obsessed with getting rich (except for the ones who have hearts of gold, of course). All dialogue in Vernon God Little is rendered in strenuously lifelike Texan diction ("Six packa Coors, I'll go git it") larded with hick malapropisms--you know you're not supposed to like Little's mom because she calls Ricardo Montalban "Ricardo Moltenbomb." Pierre has a field day with...
...potent; it overpowered the richness of Rachmaninoff and tapped into my adolescent yearnings of love and loss. Hearing its poetic, antique lyrics made me sit up and say, "That's what I want to do: tell stories with my music." It was like hitting a vein of gold...
...highlights suitably dry, Mall-ya-known inside his palace as "Boss"-makes for the pool. Wearing red-tinted sunglasses, diamond studs and thick gold bracelets, he wades into the cool turquoise water, lights up a cigarillo and bellows out a limerick that begins, "There once was young man from Madras, whose balls were made of brass...