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...onetime trading assistant Nicholas Maier will have a first printing larger than the 4,000 copies that were reduced to pulp after specific allegations of insider stock trading were deemed unsupportable. Helping both books, of course, is that Cramer is undeniably a fascinating study in computer-tossing, tongue-lashing manic drive for fortune on Wall Street. In a statement, Cramer asserts that Maier's book "contains page after page of lies and innuendo." Yet in his own book Cramer confirms much of the appalling behavior set forth by Maier...
Dalsimer chooses to focus her psychoanalysis specifically on Woolf’s adolescence, when Woolf first decided to become a professional writer. This choice is predicated on two assumptions which are central to the picture of Woolf that emerges from Dalsimer’s analysis: First, that the manic-depressive disorder that afflicted Woolf for most of her life, ultimately leading her to suicide, was primarily formed by the traumatic losses she suffered at a young age. Woolf’s mother died when she was 13. Before she reached age 25, she had lost her sister, father and brother...
...don’t know what to do about it. “It’s complicated,” I tell my sister when she asks what’s the matter. Some guy I barely know tells me I am clearly manic-depressive and I can’t refute his claim...
Most great comics are to some extent manic-depressive, but Spike was an extreme case, swinging between certifiable despair and a spate of creativity that threatened to sweep him away. He once said he would sacrifice everything for mental peace. Had he done so we would have been the poorer...
...Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first Australian foray. "Yes, I'm from this place but I've been away for a while," says Doyle, 49, in his manic Mandarin-tinged accent, "so maybe I come back with a slightly different...