Word: sociopaths
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...tell someone: I quit my hockey team because my toes got too cold. Favorite childhood toy: Clue—a children’s game about violent murder. Sexist physical trait: The time I got a tan. Best part about Harvard: UC Elections, because I am a crazed sociopath. Worst part about Harvard: One time a huge football player was in front of me in the dining hall and he took ALL of the chicken quesadillas. It was terrible. Describe yourself in 3 words: Zac Efron look-a-like In 15 minutes you are: Being taken to school...
...male antiheroes, The Sopranos. But our relationship with Mackey is more complicated--and self-implicating--than ours was with Tony Soprano. Tony was roguish and funny; we even rooted for him against other Mob bosses. But we had more distance from him because he was a criminal and a sociopath, beyond redemption and beyond our experience...
Thorns lurk in some bouquets. A columnist for Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung drew parallels between the famously moody Brown and the "sociopath" Churchill. However provocative, the comparison is apt: that just as war allowed Churchill to shine, so does the economic crisis play to Brown's strengths...
...Growing up in the confines of a Soviet-era apartment block in Kiev, Hutz channeled his energy into music and long-distance running. He made the Olympic preparation team, he says: "My parents and teachers had to keep me tired somehow - otherwise I'd turn into some kind of sociopath." At 18, he and his family left Kiev after the nuclear disaster in nearby Chernobyl. By then, he was in a band and was already a fledgling rock star. "My friends were like, 'what the f___ are you doing? Your song is in the charts,' " says Hutz...
...fraternities ever allow an unassimilable sociopath to barge in on their special privileges. And no prestigious university is ennobled if it rewards brute determination and financial resources alone. What mostly has to be put to the test, and to global scrutiny, in the coming years is China's readiness to play by the rules of the larger globe--and our readiness to enforce those rules, even on our largest, most intractable member...