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...them, urging the couple to return to the Philippines to work things out. "Mrs. Marcos is extremely angry," Marcos allegedly told Manotoc. "I can help you better here." The President's wife was indeed angry. Meeting the couple in early December in New York City, the mother went "berserk," Manotoc said later. He claimed he had never in his life been abused so violently...
Aware that their discovery could help Milligan's upcoming case in court, the doctors publicized their contention that Milligan had multiple personalities. That tactic proved an error; newspapers and get-tough advocates immediately went berserk. Milligan, they said, was faking his disorder (though other psychiatrists had since confirmed it); the young man, they argued, was simply adept at putting on 24 different acts (though sophisticated tests actually proved him to have dramatically different IQs and values when dominated by different personalities). And, as Keyes laboriously shows, his personalities were diverse...
Sprawling across a dusty mesa outside Santa Fe, the stark gray pen-which guards and inmates alike call "the hell-house"-was the site of one of the country's worst prison riots. In February of last year convicts went berserk, killing 33 fellow prisoners, some with acetylene torches. Many of the victims were suspected of having broken the sacred code of cons everywhere: never snitch. Now trials are either over, under way, or imminent for 27 inmates charged with murder in the riot-and this, in turn, has inspired more bloodshed: Explains Joanne Brown, director of Adult Institutions...
...novel's hero, a professor of Sinology, Dr. Kien, is unaware of the world outside his 25,000-volume library. When he marries his housekeeper, a consuming mother figure, his hermitage, like the Vienna around him, turns berserk. Kien is driven from his jade tower into the night gallery of prostitutes, beggars and thieves, and his dream of completing a volume on Oriental thought becomes a demented Psychology of Trousers. Finally regaining his library, Kien sets it ablaze, immolating himself in the flames. This disturbing tale was to be the first of eight, a cycle titled The Human Comedy...
Wives, mothers and brothers call every day to help vets who will not leave their rooms. After a vet in Rochester killed his mother and went berserk in a bank, the counseling center heard from hundreds of mothers who feared that the ex-teenager upstairs was a human bomb, waiting to explode and take his little corner of America with...