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...bothering with his junior year, and made only passing gestures at social contact. He did join the band for two years (he played the trombone) and the Coin Club, Biology Club, German Club and the Math Club, but he never stayed long and did not strike his classmates as weird or worrisome--unlike another student who wound up in jail. He did have one notable hobby, though: "I remember Ted had the know-how of putting together things like batteries, wire leads, potassium nitrate and whatever and creating explosions," recalls his boyhood friend Dale Eickelman, now a Dartmouth professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER: TRACKING DOWN THE UNABOMBER | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...reason: I want the council to be a true student government. The council should stick to the things it can do best for the students: providing student services and representing student concerns. Unfortunately, the opposite is happening: the Undergraduate Council is turning, more and more, into a weird debating club, where members argue about politics, from changing the English language to reforming the United States military. Council members were too busy debating Harvard ROTC policy to provide airport shuttle buses for students leaving for spring break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.C. Candidate Statements | 4/11/1996 | See Source »

...remember several of his secretaries feeling--I just remember they all disliked him," the co-worker says. "I remember one of his secretaries quit and somebody said he'd been acting weird for a couple of days. At one level it wasn't very descriptive, but on another level, when somebody said that, I knew what he was talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Tenured Despite Complaints of Verbal Abuse | 4/9/1996 | See Source »

...which, according to the Darden book, a disoriented Simpson was unable to explain his cut hand and unwilling to take a lie detector test. "I'm sure eventually I'll do it," Simpson tells detectives Philip Vannatter and Tom Lange. "But it's like, hey, I've got some weird thoughts now. And I've had some weird thoughts--you know, you've been with a person for 17 years, you think everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOOK WHO'S TALKING | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...Well," the musicians replied, "You know, you guys just looked...weird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Men Invade Crimson | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

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