Word: paranoids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead it to the top. Lucky enough to marry Eva and have two healthy daughters; good enough to raise them, dancing and smiling, into beautiful American women. That's the kind of life it's been. Andrew Steven Grove, TIME's Man of the Year 1997: lucky, good, paranoid...
...spotless clean rooms, its brilliant engineers and its bunny-suited workers seem far removed from that Austrian hillside, few places better reflect the sense of urgency with which the firm operates. Grove has it boiled down to a mantra that is as fresh as it is chilling: "Only the paranoid survive...
...that he initially resisted examination by even his own doctors. This stance might be endorsed by the "Unabomber Manifesto," which denounces anyone who attempts to "control human behavior," but it could seriously jeopardize his attorneys' efforts to save his life. They had planned to argue that Kaczynski suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him incapable of the intent necessary for him to be held legally responsible for the crimes. But now U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. is weighing a prosecution request to bar all expert psychiatric testimony, leaving his defense in tatters...
Historically, defendants who claim insanity or mental disease in federal trials rarely succeed. But if the jury in this case is allowed to hear details about paranoid schizophrenia, they may see some disturbing parallels with Kaczynski's life. For example, psychiatrists say true schizophrenics often resist diagnosis. "They don't like to think of themselves as mentally ill," says Dr. Ira Glick, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford. "They'd think something else caused their problems, like bad parenting or bad government or too many drugs--anything but being labeled crazy." Kaczynski has lashed out at both his parents...
Schizophrenia is an irreversible disease whose symptoms can be curbed but not cured by drugs, according to experts. Is it possible for someone to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and function for 18 years? Says Glick: "If you pull yourself out of society, live alone and are not married or dating, you can go a long time...