Word: fanaticize
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In 1993, when the Branch Davidian compound burned to the ground, a vast majority of Americans assumed that the conduct of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was just, David Koresh was a religious fanatic, and the Branch Davidians were a legitimate threat to the public. But this tale...
Here's the plot so far: three years ago, Melrose Place fanatic Ken Hart, a regular guy (though he claims he was reared by mountain goats at the Bronx Zoo), was living in Boston, when a co-worker and co-fan moaned that she had missed the previous night's...
But Plavsic was "a fairly honest fanatic," says an experienced Western official in Sarajevo. While Karadzic and his top aides grew rich off the war's black market, strutting about in expensive suits and driving flashy Mercedes, Plavsic stuck to matronly flower-print dresses and drove a green Volkswagen.
Nonetheless, self-censorship is starting to look like the wave--or at least one very big wave--of the future. Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser already includes a ratings program called RSACi. It has emerged as the leading Net-rating system that allows Web proprietors to rate their own...
DIED. THOMAS CONNOR, 91, last surviving member of the fbi squad that gunned down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and...