Word: mental
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...that 66% of Americans oppose military intervention. Resistance in Congress is equally strong. Not everyone agrees with Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who has referred to Aristide as "a psychopath" and "a demonstrable killer," alluding to charges that have been around since the 1991 coup that Aristide was mentally ill, approved assassinations and had encouraged mobs of his supporters to kill his political foes with flaming tires called "necklaces." But there are nagging doubts about Aristide's character and ability, reinforced last week when a senior CIA official, at Helms' urging, briefed 13 Senators on the substance...
Perhaps, the idea of e-mail as a mental vacation explains the rabid mob that descends into the Science Center basement after every class. High-strung premeds pour out of Science Center B and down the stairs, mingling with the zombie-like Core crowd filling in from Memorial Hall. Once there, they jockey for seats, of which there never seem to be enough...
FRANCES GUMM Cruella (CD: Landspeed) & NEW RADIANT STORM KING Rival Time (CD: Homestead) An hour west of us, two years ago, there were five colleges, a mental institution, a bunch of small towns, and two new bands with a lot in common: a crisp, visceral punch, a fondness for odd rhythms and offbeats, strained singing, and atonality. (Those aren't "chords" Frances Gumm plays; more like "bunches of notes.") As the two new bands started releasing singles and playing out in New England together, they both got better by sounding less alike...
...maybe the same isn't true for Nick. I've stayed up all night worrying about his tenuous mental condition, and I don't see any easy answers in sight. He's caught in a horrendous double-bind, just the sort of thing that leads to schizophrenia and full-scale psychotic breakdowns. And now, somehow, I feel that all this is my fault...
There's only one thing left to do: call Dr. Gregory Bateson at U.H.S. Dr. Bateson helped me out last year when I was in a jam, and he told me to look him up if any of my friends ever had problems. He specializes in severe mental disorders. For years Nick has been wondering if he has a brain tumor, so it should be easy to get him in. A couple of weeks in Stillman should calm Nick down enough to get him off my back. I love Nick, but I need my sleep...