He works manically for 17 hours a day, starting with phone calls to his colleagues at 7 a.m.

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It struck me that Jacob might be manically depressed and that, in addition to his career, his marriage might not be going so well, either.

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Dennis Kucinich, a short congressman from Ohio and sometime presidential candidate who claims to have seen a UFO, added a touch of levity by jumping manically up and down at the podium, but Mr Obama's team reportedly censored his punchiest line.

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It also came in a package that inspired loyalty and respect, which made Rice's dismissal from Rutgers on Wednesday for physically and verbally abusing his players all the more stunning for the people that knew him long before the video of Rice manically flinging basketballs at Scarlet Knights surfaced.

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This is reminiscent of all the dutiful grandchildren and great-grandchildren lingering over deathbeds with digital recorders, or else manically pursuing their ancestors through the online genealogy sites at three in the morning, so very eager to reconstitute the lives and thoughts of dead and soon-to-be-dead men, though they may regularly screen the phone calls of their own mothers.

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