Word: rashness
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...marauding dropped off sharply last fall, making the Mugabe government believe that the guerrillas were running low on ammunition. The latest rash of crimes has led Zimbabwe to point a finger at the white minority government of neighboring South Africa. Emmerson Munangagwa, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office for Security, accused South Africa last week of training a "Matabele brigade" with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the Mugabe government. South Africa dismissed the charge as ridiculous, but diplomats in Harare are not sure. Says a Western official: "It's not in South Africa...
...rash of headlines appeared in national publications earlier this fall, when federal auditors charged that Harvard owed the U.S. government $1.7 million in research funds, which they said the University had mismanaged and accounted for poorly...
Johnson bragged crudely about many liaisons after his 1934 marriage to Lady Bird Taylor, but about Alice he was as silent, Caro writes, "as a young man in love." And uncharacteristically rash: Marsh, the owner of several Texas newspapers and one of Johnson's most influential patrons, was someone he could hardly afford to cross. Luckily for Lyndon, Marsh never caught on. The author quotes a witness to the affair: "That was the only time-the only time-in Lyndon Johnson's whole life that he was pulled off the course that he had set for himself...
Though none of the copycats has yet been caught, the phenomenon is chillingly common enough-in the rash of airplane hijackings, for instance-to give psychologists ideas about what kind of personalities are involved. Says Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at the Northwestern University Rehabilitation Institute: "These people are often stirred to excitement by news reports. They may have longstanding impulses, barely contained, that are triggered by these events: anger, thrill seeking, retribution against injustice, real or imagined." Helen Morrison, an authority on mass murder, sums up their motives: "Better to be wanted by the police than...
...NOTION is almost paradoxical. Dapper deans gather in the stately Harvard Faculty Club to discuss students' most pressing and personal problems, the ones that are triggered by stress, and usually explode into severe depression or rash action, turning priorities, sensibilities, objectives inside out. These experiences, when they befall those close to us, prove so deeply personal that the idea of more than 100 college deans coming from all parts to discuss stress and substance abuse and suicide in a formal conference on "Stress-Related Problems Among College Students" strikes a distasteful chord...