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...government's scramble to atone for its early stonewalling managed to spook the public even more. In villages on the outskirts of Beijing, terrified citizens have set up blockades to bar outsiders from entering. The capital is buzzing with paranoid rumors, for instance that the government is on the verge of closing all public places. "I know this is probably a rumor," says Yu Jun, 32, as he stocked up on supplies at a grocery store. "But right now I'd rather believe rumors than what the government tells...
Kaczynski inhabited a dual image in the public eye: some dismissed him as a paranoid schizophrenic while others hailed his writings as evidence of a brilliant, messianic anti-technology crusader. It is well known that he attended Harvard University—but absent from the mid-90s news was that Harvard may have created the Unabomber...
Pause here for a brief head swivel. Jack Nicholson in an Adam Sandler comedy? That's right. Nicholson is here to bring a touch of Mephistophelian class to the standard Sandler paranoid-fantasy recipe. Dr. Buddy moves into Dave's apartment and bed, dates his girlfriend and--all right, this is inspired--forces Dave to sing I Feel Pretty while parked on a city bridge at rush hour...
Saddam Hussein was perhaps too wily--or paranoid or superstitious--to name a successor to his throne. But in recent years it had become clear that the heir apparent was his second son, Qusay, 37. In the prelude to Gulf War II, Saddam appointed Qusay to command the defense of four key regions, including the cities of Baghdad and Tikrit, the family's tribal home and power base...
...character. His voice is raw and powerful, at once conveying the suffering of a man who has tasted death and the drive of a father to teach the lessons of life to his son. This man must in a single scene go from cunning and collected to deranged and paranoid...