Word: loner
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...undoubtedly a loner; if he lives with someone, there's almost certainly a place in the house--a basement, maybe, or a garage--that would be off-limits to anyone else. He's got some sort of scientific background and may make his living working in a lab. He doesn't like confrontation, but he's seething with repressed anger. And starting Sept. 11, he became intensely preoccupied--but seemingly not, strangely enough, with the events that gripped the rest of the nation...
...undoubtedly a loner; if he lives with someone, there's almost certainly a place in the house - a basement, maybe, or a garage - that would be off-limits to anyone else. He's got some sort of scientific background and may make his living working in a lab. He doesn't like confrontation, but he's seething with repressed anger. And starting Sept. 11, he became in- tensely preoccupied - but seemingly not, strangely enough, with the events that gripped the rest of the nation...
...federal officials more inclined to suspect a homegrown freelance terrorist than a sophisticated network that had already displayed a taste for mass mayhem. They are analyzing the letters carefully; some veteran agents are convinced they were written by an American. "It's starting to fit in more with the loner who has a Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend in and hide...
...federal officials more inclined to suspect a homegrown freelance terrorist than a sophisticated network that had already displayed a taste for mass mayhem. They are analyzing the letters carefully; some veteran agents are convinced they were written by an American. "It's starting to fit in more with the loner who has a Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend in and hide...
...West, I felt like a loner and an outcast--a feeling that began when my mother died when I was 14 and when, shortly afterward, I was ripped from my home in New Orleans because my father was transferred to Richardson, Texas. That sense of alienation intensified over the years as I moved to California to work my way through college and then stayed on. At first I loved the freedom and radical spirit of the place. But as the years passed, I became bitter about not going home. I really didn't fit in with my liberal friends...