Word: paranoias
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...There are signs - a telltale use of the third person, a low-grade paranoia - that Becker's sense of his own importance has not diminished with the end of his career. If anything, two months on the front pages of German newspapers have convinced him that he still takes up much space in the public imagination, his travails a delight for the masses. "Finally: a little payback," he says. "Becker was the winner for so long. 'The best in tennis with the best-looking wife, beautiful kids, money, he's smart - whatever he touches is gold!' In Germany they thought...
...Long before Sierra Leone, Belgium's colonial army encouraged the amputation of body parts as proof that native soldiers had actually killed their enemies. Former Financial Times correspondent Michela Wrong's "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz" details Joseph Desire Mobutu's rise to power and his descent into paranoia, isolation and self destruction. Mobutu's Congo, Wrong writes, was a modern-day kleptocracy - a nation state that institutionalized theft...
...inquiries into allegations that Masonic corruption pervades Britain's police forces and judiciary. "You cannot have at the center of your criminal justice system an organization ... which swears oaths in secrecy to each other," he said. UGL spokesman Chris Connop, a former teacher, claims that in addition to fueling paranoia, the inquiries' recommendation that names of Masons who are members of the police and judiciary be made public was impossible to carry out. "They wanted us to provide a list of magistrates" who are Masons, he says. "Well, I'm a magistrate, but there's no form that says...
...intended to point out, too, how Assassin offers the cosseted Ivy League Last Man a chance to experience what a real man should experience, albeit in an artificial, nerf-dart sort of way. I speak, of course, of the thrill of the hunt, the delicious paranoia that comes with knowing that every dark corner, every shadowy alcove might conceal a killer and that one’s life hangs by an ever-so-thin thread. I speak, too, of the great struggle for mastery, in which one establishes one’s superiority by force of arms, without recourse...
...Democratic Society and sit-in activists. The book also gives an excellent analysis of the political geography of the time (who the most important operatives were, the scattered patchwork of support it took to win a national campaign and how everything was viewed through a lens of Communist paranoia) while harkening back to an era when the two parties’ conventions actually mattered, fistfights...