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...report on New York City homicides shows that 3 out of 10 victims have cocaine in their system when they die. Researchers speculate that the drug's tendency to increase irritability, aggression and paranoid thinking may spur users into violent confrontations...
...follow most of his patients into the five plans, he was told they had enough obstetricians and did not need him. Of course, his former patients can continue seeing him if they pay higher deductibles, but very few are doing so. "It's almost enough to make a guy paranoid," he says. "The impression in the patients' minds is, 'Nobody wants him. What's wrong with him?' " So these days Dr. Shuwarger is having trouble ; making ends meet: he is living on his savings and may close down his practice. And then? He's thinking of looking...
David Byrne is rock's most protean misfit. During the 1980s, when he was the lead singer for Talking Heads, his jittery, paranoid persona was the ideal conduit for songs about psycho killers, information overload and the itchy $ neuroses of ordinary life. Then, on albums such as Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues, Byrne added African polyrhythms to the Talking Heads' new-wave mix, creating a pancultural groove...
...leader Enver Hoxha, the world's most avidly Stalinist ruler until his death in 1985, is broad in reach; a set of his collected works sprawls across a good meter of bookshelf. But the public's appetite never matched the government's passion for printing the dictator's often paranoid musings on Albania's sole true path to proletariat rule and his lonely struggle against nonbelievers. Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively in Albanian warehouses. Last...
Aside from some concern for Gregoire's penchant for paranoid hyperbole, we at Dartboard support efforts to prosecute our fellow Crimson editors to the fullest extent of the law. As part of our continuing effort to serve the community, we checked with the state Attorney General's office to see what kind of jail terms these criminals might be facing...