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There are many ways, some gruesome, some graceful, to kill yourself once you set your mind to it. Ted Kaczynski's attempt to hang himself with his underwear in his jail cell last week seemed a clumsy gesture compared with the convoluted strategy he has been employing in court. First he threatened to fire his lawyers if they kept insisting on portraying him as mentally ill. Then he argued that he wanted to defend himself. And that, lawyers observed, would probably ensure that he would wind up dead after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fits And Starts | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...case finally seemed ready to go on Thursday morning. Few people in the courtroom knew that Kaczynski had arrived in his prison jumpsuit but without underwear; U.S. marshals saw a slight red bruise on his neck and later concluded that he tried to hang himself the night before. At 7:50 a.m., prosecutor Robert Cleary nervously paced the courtroom's well, then went up to the jury box to ensure he knew what jurors would be able to see when he started his opening statement. But once everyone was seated, Clarke stood up. "Mr. Kaczynski has a request that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fits And Starts | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Theodore Kaczynski has been placed under a 24-hour suicide watch after trying to hang himself with his underwear Wednesday night. Police said they discovered the attempt only after spotting him in court with red marks on his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kaczynski Reportedly Tried Suicide | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

...would stir himself into a state of lasting disgust at the Marv Albert backbiting assault and underwear case, when one felt certain that Marv would (as he did) show up on Larry King, Letterman and Today to seek redemption by exposure? There was an exchange on the Today interview with Katie Couric that could be read as the clarifying moment of the entire century, let alone the past year, when Couric asked Marv why anyone should believe his version of the sordid events when he had already admitted lying to his former wife and fiance. Albert said, in effect, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...Nuts, Barbra Streisand saw you in your underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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