Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kaczynski set off for Montana, buying land and building his house and living on what he could grow or kill. He did odd jobs now and then but apparently got by on a few hundred dollars a year, with plenty of free time for his growing vocation: the disruption of the industrial society he had left behind. A fellow bank customer claims Kaczynski had some assets, yet six weeks ago he applied for a checkout clerk's job at Blackfoot market, which now sports a sign reading NO MEDIA, NO PRESS. Sherry Wood, the Lincoln librarian, is equally tight-lipped...
...rented the Ryder van? And among the many sightings of McVeigh, some are of no help to the prosecution. Mike Moroz, an employee at a service station in Oklahoma City, says that moments before the explosion McVeigh and another man pulled up to ask directions, which would be odd if the pair had studied the building frequently in advance, as the prosecutors allege. Jones claims that on April 19 there were as many as three Ryder trucks in Oklahoma City and that the one McVeigh was driving may not have been the one involved in the blast...
...makes sense that a bomber who struck Yale and Berkeley but not Harvard was probably a graduate who still had a bit of respect for his alma mater. And now, many undergraduates are looking around at their classmates with increased interest, wondering who will be suspected of committing odd crimes long after graduation...
...different today than it was about 30 years ago, when Kaczynski was holed up in Eliot House instead of a Montana cabin. In fact, Harvard may now attract even more anti-social freaks and wierdos. It seems that every year brings a new bumper crop of odd first-years to Cambridge. And many of the students who appear normal when they arrive in the Yard soon mutate into loners with disturbing personalities...
...case, if you currently share a suite with a mysterious loner, take detailed notes of his or her odd behavior. You will probably need them for your interviews with major television, magazine and newspaper reporters in about 30 years...