Word: fervently
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...question about affirmative action elicits a fervent response about Michigan and Alabama and how the nation’s courts are still deciding the case. Suddenly he’s on to Attorney General John Ashcroft. “Not a real patriot,” akin to those who put the confederate flag on South Carolina’s state house, says Jesse...
Would-be shoe bomber Richard C. Reid's possible links to the radical jihadist movement are being urgently probed by authorities in the U.S. as well as in several European countries where the British ex-con traveled recently. But despite some fervent speculation, FBI agents so far have no evidence that Reid conspired with others in his attempt to ignite explosives hidden in his sneakers while flying from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22. Reid did attend the same London mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui, now on trial for terrorism conspiracy in U.S. federal court. But neither...
...find space to build a beautiful new life" and wants "closure" on Tiananmen. Her "deputy" in the square, Li Lu, fronts a hedge fund on Madison Avenue. Others have turned away from political confrontation to espouse Christianity as an elixir for China's woes, insisting, despite Buruma's fervent arguments to the contrary, that only Christian countries can sustain democracy. Only a few, like Liu Qing?who spent four of his 10 years in prison forced to sit in complete silence on a low stool with his face pressed against a wall?still make China's political transformation the central...
...sort of compromise" between GOP that Daschle is holding out for from Republican House, Senate and increasingly fervent (at least publicly) White House negotiators has apparently been largely achieved over the past week, with the exception of one sticking point: Providing health care for unemployed workers. Bush and the Republicans want to do it with tax credits, redeemable at private insurers. Daschle and the Democrats want to do it with established government programs COBRA and Medicare. The White House line is that COBRA and Medicare won't help people whose companies went bankrupt - Daschle's is that having...
Culminating the progress that rock has made against pop this year, three dudes who write their own songs and play their own instruments are outselling Britney Spears with their new CD. For many people over 14, that sounds like an answer to a fervent prayer. But it's unclear whether the hard-rock band Creed's new album Weathered (Wind-up), which debuted at first place on the Billboard 200 by selling 887,000 copies in its first week, is salvation or the devil in disguise...