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Much though I wish Jeffrey Masten had received tenure at Harvard, I am well aware that the stakes are high and that the President faces an exceptionally difficult decision when he makes an appointment that will stand for the next fourty years. --Leo Damrosch, chair of Department of English and American Literature and Language
Although his lawyers have not claimed that Kaczynski is incompetent to stand trial, they still believe, despite their shift in strategy, that he is psychotic. But the particular illness he has poses problems for them. People with paranoid schizophrenia are often able to function relatively normally. Indeed, no one watching the neatly dressed former Berkeley professor scribbling notes and conferring with his attorneys would say he looks insane. Insanity, the most obvious defense, was never an option because it would have required Kaczynski's lawyers to argue that he either did not know what he was doing...
...likely event that Kaczynski is convicted, the defense's plan is to wait for the sentencing phase of the trial and raise his mental condition as a mitigating factor. His brother and mother will then take the stand and tell how his aberrant behavior goes all the way back to childhood. With a little bit of luck, the jury may show some mercy. Kaczynski will probably not like all the talk about mental illness then any more than he does now. But at that point his lawyers will be engaged in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Their...
That won't be any time soon. With millions of victims and hardly any confessed perpetrators, road recklessness has become the car-related sickness du jour, deposing (for the moment) drunk driving from its long-standing reign. Like drunk driving, the issue has energized America's vast machinery of social concern. The Federal Government is spending money on research, Congress has held hearings, law-enforcement authorities have held seminars and developed special enforcement programs, and psychologists are treating it as a genuine, stand-alone disorder. There are Websites devoted to the topic, including one--the Database of Unsafe Driving--that...
...quantity of cars has risen, the nature of the problem has changed qualitatively as well. Maybe the congestion is making everyone cranky. Americans are famously attached to their cars; it's just the driving they can't stand. "Driving and habitual road rage have become virtually inseparable," says Leon James, a professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii who specializes in the phenomenon. In the most comprehensive national survey on driving behavior so far, a Michigan firm, EPIC-MRA, found that an astounding 80% of drivers are angry most or all of the time while driving. Simple traffic congestion...