Satan's still behind the baby Jesus but getting closer:

". .    .according to a recent study by the National Retail Federation,
Halloween has now officially shot past Mother's Day and Easter to generate
more commercial revenue than any other day on the calendar except Christmas. "

>From "Halloween: The Making of a Mercantile Event" By Sam Howe Verhovek
*NY Times*, October 23, 1996.

Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago

"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

--Guy Debord , *Panegyric*, vol. 1, pt. 1 (1989).

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