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...response to A is we do not know that Saddam is sane enough never to use them against us, and it is not a proposition that we should wish to test by giving him yet more time to acquire them. Saddam has acted with supreme irrationality in the past, from launching a catastrophic war against Iran in 1980 to forfeiting half a dozen opportunities offered to him in 1990 to extricate himself with advantage from Kuwait. In the annals of tyranny and on the scale of capricious savagery, he ranks somewhere between Caligula and Mao. There's not much percentage...
...THOMPSON, 69, the longest-serving prisoner of war in American history; of unknown causes; in Key West, Fla. After his plane was shot down in northern South Vietnam in 1964, Thompson endured physical and mental torture, including being hung by his thumbs, and five years in solitary. He stayed sane, he said, by building an imaginary house he and his wife would live in once he was freed by the Viet Cong--which he finally was, after nine years...
...rich and powerful, was never to be one. And yet, as Ridley capably demonstrates, the marriage survived through numerous lengthy separations and intense extramarital relationships. Divorce was less common then than now, and it suited both partners to live their lives in parallel compartments. Architecture kept Ned, sane and he "poured his imagination and emotion into other people's houses." Emily spent most of her life in a cocoon of mysticism and fashionable causes and in writing thousands of letters to her absent husband. In the end these letters, and the replies she received, became the marriage and form...
...psychologist, had testified that Yoder was bipolar and delusional and that he had a history of violence. Given a choice between two competing experts, the jury played it safe. Who wants to be responsible for loosing a madman? Yoder repeatedly faced this conundrum in court--convincing jurors he was sane from inside an asylum. The state had a strong case: jurors heard about Yoder's battery of women. They heard about the time he got into a scuffle with a guard and bit him. They heard about incidents when he became agitated and had to be secluded. They heard that...
...When Dave Cheadle, a Denver lay pastor at an inner-city ministry, sent out an Internet letter after 9/11 suggesting that Revelation was the relevant text for understanding what was happening, he got a huge--and frightened--response: "People were asking themselves whether they were ready to die. Very sane, well-educated people have gone back to the storm-cellar thing to make sure they have water and freeze-dried stuff in their basements." Some had trouble reconciling their warm image of a merciful God with the chilling warnings they were reading. "They're asking people to believe that...