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...peace talks. But while 60% of Israelis support the proposed withdrawal, Sharon faces escalating opposition from right-wing Israelis who condemn the plan and from some of his own Cabinet ministers, who have threatened to resign unless Sharon holds a national referendum. It's a sign of the fervor Sharon faces that an increasing number of right-wingers talk about him in terms usually reserved for Arafat. "Ariel Sharon is a dictator," says Elyakim Levanon, an influential settler rabbi. "He is breaking democracy in Israel...
...Today’s mood has been pretty somber, everyone’s real touchy,” Truesdell said, referring to Republicans “under fire” on Adams-Schmooze. Heated debates on many house open lists yesterday signalled a continuing partisan fervor in the wake of the election...
...Gone were the beloved creeks and orchards of Gee's west Auckland, and the religious fervor which he saw as polluting this innocent age. For first-time feature director McGann, 40, the process of bringing Celia and Paul into the present day was reminiscent of the drawing exercises he did as a kid at school; taking someone else's squiggle and turning it around into something new. "I needed to find my own voice," he says...
...final remarks to criticize their opponents. “What we’re dealing with are a group of people who disagree about what one man thinks,” he said. Because Democrats dislike Bush, they rally around Kerry, he said, not because of any fervor for the Democratic nominee...
...convinced." (About a year ago, Sultan was detained by the Russians and has not been heard from since.) Kazbek, a deeply religious young fighter who joined Basayev for the 1995 siege of a hospital in Budennovsk in the Russian region of Stavropol in which 120 people died, discounted religious fervor as Basayev's prime motivation: "He is a man of war." (Kazbek has also since disappeared.) The Budennovsk hospital siege - and the live televised negotiations with then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin - confirmed Basayev as a folk hero back home, showing the embattled Chechens how a lowly boy from Vedeno could...