Word: paranoias
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...other time, Indyk would probably have received a lighter administrative penalty. But Washington is in the grip of security paranoia. After the FBI's bungled espionage investigation of government nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the Administration is eager to show it is not singling out Asian Americans for security violations. Albright, under fire from Congress for lax safeguards at the State Department, was not about to give Indyk just a slap on the wrist. Besides, relations between the two had grown chilly because of clashes over how the U.S. should deal with Iraq. "So she's hung Martin...
...most congenial when his ascension to power is assured, but the McCain challenge in the primaries showed that he's not exactly comfortable with spirited opposition. Politicians aren't expected to like journalists, but lashing out at them by name carries echoes of a certain Nixonesque paranoia. And that's not going to help the governor's efforts to cast himself as the custodian of a new civility...
That may not be saying much. If you consider what we know now about the presidents who served from January, 1961 to August, 1974 (John Kennedy's Addison's disease and Dr. Feelgood drugs and relentless risky sex; Lyndon Johnson's grandiosity and paranoia, and Richard Nixon's blackly coiled weirdness) - why you have to wonder how the Republic survived...
...first to diagnose. The year was 1906. The patient's name was Auguste D. She was 55 when she died, and she had spent the last years of her life as a patient in a mental institution. She was prone, Alzheimer noted, to angry outbursts and fits of paranoia, and would sometimes pat the faces of others, apparently mistaking them...
...nemeses--Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader, the scourges of Pottsylvania--into live-action characters was unwise. Jason Alexander, Rene Russo and Robert De Niro, respectively, do their best to act cartoonishly, but the Russian-accented villains were funnier when they were drawn. And when they were satirizing cold war paranoia...