In 1957, when he was still attending university, Charles B suffered the first in a series of black depressions so debilitating that he asked that his name be withheld, so as not to alarm his clients (he is an American in a profession that requires intimacy and trust).

ECONOMIST: People, like all living things, are four dimensional

Mr Riordan, the nominally Republican head of an overwhelmingly Democratic city, is so hated by his own party that he is denounced as a Rino (Republican in name only).

ECONOMIST: Los Angeles