Word: madman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Inside the Mind of a Madman? "I intend to start killing people," wrote Theodore Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, in his diary. What can the defense say to that...
Hockey players are supposed to be tough. Now, it seems, so are their wives. When the N.H.L.'s reigning madman, the Rangers' Ulf Samuelsson, slammed a player into the boards, he sent that 30-lb. Plexiglas panel off its hinges and squarely on the head of teammate WAYNE GRETZKY's wife JANET JONES, who then spent the night at the hospital with a lacerated lip and mild concussion. Gretzky finished the final six minutes of the game before leaving to visit her, though he later said he maybe should have left immediately (it's not as if he scored...
Woodham specifically mentioned the Nietzsche character who declares God's death: "the madman," an enlightened being whom the rest of the world perceives as lunatic. The madman declares, "I have come too early ... My time is not yet." In his note, Woodham purportedly wrote his own rant: "I am not insane! I am angry. This world s___ on me for the final time. I am not spoiled or lazy; for murder is not weak and slow-witted; murder is gutsy and daring. I killed because People like me are mistreated every day... I am malicious because I am miserable...
...medical innovator, Batista is variably described as a madman, a genius--or both. Says Dr. Noedir Stolf, director of the surgical division of the Heart Institute in Sao Paulo: "With his many more ideas for new surgeries, Dr. Batista is likely to keep controversy alive and well in the surgical world for a long time to come...
...story of a madman who snuffed out the lives of four treasured members of a peaceful community. "God love these people as their families and their towns did," Harrigan, publisher of the News and Sentinel, wrote in an editorial that night. "And God help us all deal with what has happened, and remember those fine and cherished faces, and their smiles." But it is also the story of a small world of heroes. Drega, at every turn in his rampage, encountered ordinary people--and even a dog--who tried to stop him and save lives. As the sound of gunfire...