"I'm not a lunatic, trust me, " said Marlboro Mayor Jonathan Hornik, the father of three school-age children, in December.

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The security lights had been triggered and through the railings they had watched Manning roaming about, from time to time peering in at the downstairs windows of the lumpy red brick building that was said to have been a lunatic asylum once.

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He was considered a "lunatic" by fellow townspeople and was known as a loner.

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" The general feeling was that I was a harmless lunatic, " says Keith.

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He had it easy: His mission was always pretty clear: Save the earth from a space-station-based lunatic bent on replacing humanity with supermodels, and so on.

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Perhaps I should add this experiment to things that are lunatic enough to work as a Kickstarter project.

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After seeing the melodramatic headlines that made it sound like Dunham had lost her mind, gone off the deep end, and wandered out of the house on the day of the event without pants like some lunatic in the midst of a manic episode, I saw the picture of her outfit and laughed.

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If the problem had been that insured deposits were paying for lunatic capital markets bets which went wrong then OK, ring fencing, separation, might be a good idea.

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Clare, who was born in 1793 and died in 1864 in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, is buried in St Botolph's churchyard, Helpston, Cambridgeshire, where there is a memorial to him.

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