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GRANTED. Unsupervised visits with his parents for JOHN HINCKLEY JR., 48, who has been in a psychiatric hospital since 1982, when he was acquitted by reason of insanity for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan; in Washington...
...probably the least dangerous person on the planet." BARRY LEVINE, attorney for John Hinckley Jr., arguing why Hinckley, who has lived in a psychiatric hospital since attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, should be allowed unsupervised visits with his parents...
...build a casino on its reservation 70 miles north of Minneapolis. In return for managing the place, Berman and his partners got 40% of the profits for seven years, after which the tribe took over. Eager to duplicate the model, Berman backed three more Indian ventures: the Grand Casino Hinckley, also in Minnesota, and two casinos in Louisiana. In 1999 a predecessor company, Lakes Gaming Inc., which was publicly owned, earned $54.7 million in management-fee income and had a net profit of $28.8 million. Berman has done so well that in 1997 executive-compensation guru Graef Crystal called...
...obsessed with Caro, but I am interested in him; that is, in how obsession works, because the emotion (is it an emotion?), the passion (must it always involve passion?), the mental devotion (that'll do for the moment) produces a multiplicity of applications. John W. Hinckley Jr. was obsessed with Jodie Foster; Hitler with Jews; Osama bin Laden with...
...musical nature of the songs is often in direct contrast to the content. For instance, the lyrical love duet sung by John Hinckley (Patrick W. Hosfield ’05) and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Julie Goldin) to the absent Jodie Foster and Charles Manson is musically the most beautiful number in the show, and their voices resonate with passion and fervor. Yet it is actually a song about obsession, control and the desire of two unbalanced individuals to do something tragically drastic to prove their love. Hosfield and Goldin play it totally straight, refraining from...