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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he fit their expectations so uncannily. He was, as they had surmised, a white male, middle-aged, a loner whom no one would miss if he vanished for weeks at a time. An ideal neighbor who kept to himself--just as the entire town of Lincoln described "the hermit on the hill." The agents had expected a neat, meticulous man, someone who probably kept careful notes and lists. And they found, amid his books, 10 three-ring notebooks full of data and diagrams and test results, the careful professor's lab report on the quest for the perfect bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER: TRACKING DOWN THE UNABOMBER | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard alumnus who is the FBI's prime suspect in the 17-year Unabomber case left a life in academics to become what people in the rural town of Lincoln, Montana, call a "hermit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unabomber Suspect in Custody | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes a Hollywood big shot, and a former hippie turned Trappist monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PAT CONROY: FIRST-PERSON PORTENTOUS | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

Describe yourself in three words: rambunctious, hermit-crab-like, smelly...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Profile : Hayden F. Hirschfield '98 | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...firearm as a convicted felon, destruction of U.S. property, assaulting a federal officer and the use of a firearm in a violent crime. BTW: President Clinton announced he didn't want Pennsylvania Avenue blocked off in reaction to the shooting, saying the proposal would make him "a total hermit."Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAS DURAN GUNNING FOR CLINTON? | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

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