Word: fanaticism
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Though Butler has been a figure skating fanatic since 1994, he did not even start to learn to skate until last fall. He took lessons through the Harvard Figure Skating Club and practiced every day at 7 a.m. at the Brighton Hockey Center. He is now a teacher with ?...
But the trend has spread beyond the beauty-fanatic media world. Patty Reimerdes, 50, a divorced mother of two from Queens, N.Y., had her first Botox procedure last week and pronounces herself pleased. Reimerdes says she doesn't mind being 50: "I just don't want to look 50." And...
Here are a few basic principles, news to nobody. Sports stoke adrenaline, laying out a drama that usually ends in an unambiguous win or loss. "Fan" is short for fanatic; each close pitch or missed basket or hard body check makes manic-depressives of a team's rooters. And some...
What the secular West fails to understand is that in fighting religious fanaticism the issue--for the fanatic--is not grievance but ascendancy. What must be decided is not who is right and wrong--one can never appease the grievances of the religious fanatic--but whose God is greater. After Afghanistan there can be no doubt. In the land of jihad, the fall of the Taliban and the flight of al-Qaeda are testimony to the god that failed...
CHARGED. CLAYTON LEE WAAGNER, 45, antiabortion fanatic and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives; with illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon; in Springdale, Ohio. A father of nine, Waagner claims to have mailed some 550 hoax anthrax letters to about 280 abortion clinics since...