Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer Scrooge has deservedly become the first name recalled when we have to summon a miser who put money-grubbing above all else. After all, he believes that he is overtaxed to support "surplus people" who should be in...

Dr. Eb Rouge sat at his desk sorting his mail and bills. His habit was to have an ongoing conversation with himself. "Here is one from a bleeding children's home in Memphis pleading for charity?' With a satisfying measure of glee, he...