Word: fanaticize
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By law, Recep Tayyip Erdogan should not even be in politics. In 1998, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul was convicted under Turkey's religious-hate-speech statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months...
No one kidnapped American John Walker Lindh and forced him to join the Taliban [NATION, Oct. 7]. He alone made that choice. His parents allowed him to explore his spirituality half a world away, in a region not known for its liking of America. Lindh was just a teenager, and...
Three dresses dominate the entrance to the new Gianni Versace show at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. From a design standpoint, the dresses are barely notable: each is a simple column embellished with beading or gold studs or safety pins. The dresses have pride of place not because of...
Emily Watson is not the kind of actress you expect to see in a serial-killer movie. Ever since her Oscar-nominated performance in 1996's Breaking the Waves--as a beautiful young religious fanatic who talks to God while having sex with strangers--she's had critics scrambling for...
In its mission to outdo its own unprecedented acts of staggering cheapness in the area of toilet paper purchasing, Harvard has deemed the bare bones basic cable package sufficient to meet its institutional cable television needs. But as every “Sopranos” fanatic knows, basic cable is...