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...Paris' highest court last week, Mitterrand came off as a paranoid liar. Since last November, 12 former officials and police officers have been on trial, accused of wiretapping at least 150 people during the initial years of his presidency. The court showed a tape filmed by two Belgian television journalists who interviewed the President in March 1993. The interview was essentially over as soon as they asked about the boiling scandal over the wiretapping. "The Elysée listens to nothing," Mitterrand said before excoriating the journalists. "I didn't think one would stoop to such a vile level. Merci...
Wood’s disapproval of the book is part of his rejection of what he has called “hysterical realism,” a form that skirts character development in favor of a plot that “privileges...the fantastic, the paranoid,” he says. To Wood’s delight, though, Smith has since sent him excerpts—since the two are, after all, friends now—of her newest novel, On Beauty, due out in September. Wood notes that Smith seems to have reverted to her comedic roots...
...Once the talks resume, progress can be made only if the U.S. relaxes its posture and begins to view North Korea not as a grave threat to world peace, but as what it truly is: an impoverished, paranoid, deeply misguided dictatorship. Interestingly, accepting North Korea as an established nuclear power may not be a bad idea in that it will give the country some self-respect. As for agreement on the tough issue of a nuclear inspection regime, that must await improvement in Washington-Pyongyang relations. But so long as North Korea does not precipitate a crisis by selling...
DIED. JOHN VERNON, 72, prolific Canadian-born character actor, best known for his role as the paranoid Dean Wormer, nemesis of John Belushi's Bluto and Bluto's unkempt fraternity brothers in the 1978 John Landis comedy Animal House; in his sleep, at his home in Van Nuys, Calif...
...charged with terrorism offenses in Australia or overseas. But he didn't share their views, Hopper says. Indeed, Habib had a public fight with Khazal, and was eventually banned by the group because "they thought he was a cia spy." "He's probably a bit wacky and a bit paranoid, but he's no terrorist," says Hopper, who has never met his client. "Just because people do strange things that you and I wouldn't do doesn't mean the bogeyman (of terrorism) is there...