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Dick Gephardt continued his gradual descent into schizophrenia. He’s so full of “wink-winks” and “nudge-nudges” that ultimately we have no idea what he’s trying to tell us. After years of pussyfooting moderateness in the House, he appeared last month with his behemoth Health Care Plan to End All Health Care Plans (not to mention Bush’s tax-cut plan). Gephardt wants very badly to be Clinton. Clinton had so fully mastered the art of chicanery that we all relished those...
...case of cultural indigestion. But his diagnosis is subtler than most: he suggests that the reactionary forces that led Japan into World War II promoted myths of Japaneseness?including the Emperor cult?that were themselves based on ideas borrowed from the West. In short, Japan's cultural schizophrenia runs deep. It explains, Buruma writes, why many Japanese today believe that foreign pressure?gaiatsu?is needed to force the nation to reengineer its wheezing economy...
...Harvard softball team split a Sunday showdown against Drexel that was marked by the Crimson’s schizophrenia at the plate and dominance on the mound...
...repeatedly hospitalized as he suffered from schizophrenia and alcoholism in the 1960s and 70s, and his productivity declined until his death...
...recent interview with a British journalist, Spector disclosed that he has been taking medication for "schizophrenia" and often battled the "devils inside [my] tortured soul." Still, the arrest was a shock to many who felt Spector had mellowed. "The last three years, he's been as straight as any guy could be," says his friend Marvin Mitchelson, the divorce attorney. Adds a music exec who knows Spector: "I would have expected this 20 or 30 years...