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There is probably never a good time to ask the question--Tell me, do you consider yourself insane?--but when the time comes, Ted Kaczynski responds without hesitation. "I'm confident that I'm sane, personally," he says. "I don't get delusions and so on and so forth...I mean, I had very serious problems with social adjustment in adolescence, and a lot of people would call this a sickness. But it would have to be distinguished between an organic illness, like schizophrenia or something like that...
...sane person would attempt to hold the attention of five adolescents, let alone 500, for nearly an hour. Pritchard, however, has the advantage of being able to rattle off a thousand sound effects and voices, including the Ewoks he has done for George Lucas' Star Wars films. And once he hooks the kids, he sneaks doses of medicine in along with the candy...
...first priority. They?re absolutely right. And the polls indicate that people also think that Bill Clinton is the man to do it for them. (This impression, most likely, is the result of countless Clinton speeches about irresponsible "instant gratification" on the Republican side and safe, sane saving for the future by your friends at the White House.) Clinton keeps saying only he can save Medicare and Social Security; the Republicans say they can save the sacred cows and pay for a tax cut, and still keep the debt shrinking and the budget balanced. And here?s where it gets...
...1930s and '40s, the press wasn't watching their every move. But the Kennedy cousins have suffered the attention of the media from the moment they were old enough to cut a high school class or fail a bar exam. It's enough to make any sane person wary of doing anything that would bring the media further into one's life. Like run for office. Last year, when Joe II retired from the House and from politics altogether, he had just gone through two public embarrassments. His ex-wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy had published a book in which...
While conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or the Maine Coast or Martha's Vineyard or Newport, it just isn't the case. Cambridge's long hot months have a lot going for them...