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...world would not wait, and as the Inauguration approached, Hoover tried to force Roosevelt's hand: he wrote to enlist his help in calming investors; and he told a colleague that Roosevelt was a "madman" for not listening to him or lifting a finger to forestall a banking crisis, which began in mid-February. It guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office amid such an atmosphere of crisis that Hoover had become the most hated man in America. There were rumors, as he left Washington, that he had been arrested trying to escape aboard Andrew Mellon's yacht with...
...Israeli authorities are trying to determine whether the killer, Hosam Tayseer Dawyyat, 30, a father of two described by neighbors as "an ordinary person," was a crazed madman acting alone, or had been acting on behalf of a Palestinian militant group when he swerved a 20-ton bulldozer out of a construction site and onto Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Road to begin his deadly ride. Most likely, said Police Commissioner Dudi Cohen, it was "a spontaneous attack...
...only strains credulity, it breaks through the strainer and plops like pulp in the kitchen sink. Note to critics: Not every work of popular art needs the mathematical precision of a Mozart sonata. It's true that the movie is studded with the sort of schemes a genius madman hatches in his basement. (One plan involves peanut butter, tiny bomb jackets and the use of rats as suicide bombers.) But if you have trouble accepting, even as a fantasy premise, that "A thousand years ago, a clan of weavers formed a secret society of assassins," fine, don't believe...
...charge of those negotiations too. "Everyone over there was pretty much convinced this thing was finished," says another senior Clinton adviser, referring to the somber mood at Hillary's campaign headquarters. "We were going through the motions. But not Harold. He's been focused on those delegates like a madman. And there's a chance it may actually...
...aspiration got lost in the Madman's House because of a long-running but apparently trivial dispute over a name. Macedonia, a former constituent republic of Yugoslavia, had expected to be invited to join NATO alongside Albania and Croatia, another successor state to Communist Yugoslavia. But Macedonia's southern neighbor Greece perceives the name "Macedonia" as a threatened territorial claim on its own northernmost province, which is also called Macedonia. Right up to the wire, some NATO delegates remained optimistic about a solution for the country, which Greece still refers to as the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, or, more...