Phillips begins his study with a report from a US court of appeal that ruled a death row prisoner would have to be treated for psychosis so that he could become "sane enough to be executed".
What finally got me going was a conversation I was having one day with one of the soldiers, who said, "I was a normal guy who got sent to Iraq and became crazy, so they sent me back to America to become sane, and now it's America that's driving me crazy".
I watch the news about all these unthinkable things taking place, whether it's Darfur, world hunger, AIDS or global warming - what do you think it will it take for humanity to become sane?
What began roughly 100 years ago as a racist legislative overreaction to Latino workers' preferred method of relaxing -- and was then ramped up (under Richard Nixon) to punish hippies and minorities and college students -- could once again become sane governmental policy, ending almost a century's institutional demonization of a fairly harmless natural substance.
Owen may not always have liked his authors (Salvador Dali was "a creep [but] not as mad as you'd think. When you mentioned money, he suddenly became very sane"), but it's hard to question his commitment to new and avant-garde writing.
She got more honest and more responsible; she became a saner girlfriend.
The character, Mr. Apatow said, "is what me and Adam would become if we didn't get sane and get married and have children".
In time, however, it became apparent that SANE's invitation to march had been what the students refer to as an "exclusionist call".
The inducements 60 paranoia there are so constant that people become ultra-sane; they turn into no-nonsense types who seldom indulge in flights of fancy.
Regarding David Brooks's "The Perot option" (Views, Jan . 30: In an effort to become a saner version of Ross Perot, President Obama could build on his recent meeting with House Republicans.
