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The past one hundred years has borne witness to an extraordinary revolution in the constitution and activities of philanthropic foundations. The evolution of the governance of foundations-from founder to family to professionals to institutions-has necessarily altered the role that foundations play within a society. As community foundations, for example, strengthen the essential communal fabric and help all organizations gain a financial foothold, they find themselves at times in conflict with commercial gift funds, whose transactional nature between the donor...

A young doctor is coerced into assisting an older doctor with a complex operation conducted under a new form of anesthesia, called -Sacral Anesthesia.- The patient, a prominent citizen in the community, dies under mysterious circumstances during the operation. The young doctor is haunted by the death and, despite attempts to discourage further investigation, he persuades the coroner to allow him to take fluid from the anesthesia site. The fluid contains cyanideso the death precipitates a murder investigation. The seven immediate suspects include all five members of the operating room team....

Excerpts from "Captains All" "I am a carpenter, just like Jesus was a carpenter. Whatever they need ... I build it. Sometimes it's a chapel ... sometimes it's a scaffold."
A Machester boy sails to America.
After many adventures, an array of gods, demons and ghosts take on an eerie reality and threaten his life.
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"The start is a wonderful stream of consciousness, the kind we used to have from Proust all the way to Kerouac, and which for some unclear reason to me, we no longer get."
"On the one hand, you have the moment by moment...