Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radicals of Egypt's Islamic Group would like to do to Mubarak what their fanatic brothers did to the Shah of Iran: topple him and install a purely Islamic government. They even have their own Ayatullah equivalent: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who calls passionately for Mubarak...
The head count inside the compound actually rose by one on Wednesday, when Louis Anthony Alaniz, a 24-year-old Houston man described by his mother as a religious fanatic, broke through the ring of agents and sprinted to the Davidians' door. Suspecting at first that he was an FBI...
Born on a benevolent plantation, she is raised alongside the master's legitimate daughter. But after the Civil War, she must leave and fend for herself. Light-skinned enough to pass for white, she is caught between two worlds. A white man proposes marriage, then rapes her when she reveals...
Kevorkian has become the kind of fanatic who could prompt people who share his views to change their minds. Two out of three Americans say they think doctors should be allowed to help desperately sick patients commit suicide, a cause for which Kevorkian has become the most celebrated champion. But...
BATMAN IS DEPRESSED. FIRST HE READS a headline in the local paper: PENGUIN CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Then, while rounding up some crooks, he nearly causes the death of Commissioner Gordon. BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, which is joining Fox's Sunday-night schedule after scoring big ratings in daytime, has the same...