Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jon Stewart may not be anybody's idea of the first or last word in comedy today, but Naked Pictures of Famous People certainly gives out hope for the future of comedians-turned-writers. With brilliant fervor, nonstop wit and the decorum of the average skateboard fanatic, Stewart rips into...
After that, I was no longer a fan. I was a fanatic.
Remember? It seemed that, in the phlegmatic, latter days of the Bush presidency, the sagging national economy seemed to allow every two-bit fanatic to whip out the bullhorn and start making some noise. Of course, everyone recalls different events from the time. If you're on one side of...
Ultimately, Bill Clinton stopped telling a full-blown lie not because he wanted to or even because we wanted him to, but because he had to. In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, who wasn't a fanatic about the truth, wrote: "'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I...
So far, they have no evidence to implicate any of them, but counterterrorism officials aren't ruling anyone out. The bombers could be Kenyans or Tanzanians with a grudge against the U.S., outside terrorists from around the globe, or a combination of the two. The bombings could be the work...