Word: zeal
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...illegal-drug sales and counterfeiting and its abysmal human-rights record here are implicitly just the antics of a misunderstood regime. Pyongyang's extortionate tactics with Kim Dae Jung, the South Korean leader who tried to coax it out of isolation, are also glossed over. In Chinoy's zeal to castigate the neocons, there is a subtle subtext that the North is a more or less normal country being prevented by silly U.S. policies from coming out of its shell. But while Bush's initial policies toward the North may have been wrongheaded, there is nothing to suggest that...
...face, form-fitting red-and-white-striped jacket, flowing seaweed hair and a perpetually haggard look, he suggests an underwater rock star; he could be the Ron Wood of the deep. Fujimoto calls himself an "ex-human" (apparently he's undergone a sea-change operation) and has the imperious zeal of the reformed mammal. When not presiding over his hundreds of daughters, he's mixing liquid elixirs that could clean up the mess man has made of the sea - if Ponyo doesn't accidentally release them and cause a wave of trouble...
...Virgin) approaches an Apatow hero, she'll often induce not passion but panic attacks, and need to take the lead, be aggressive, help him learn how to cope in the land beyond his obsessions and fears. (In Step Brothers Alice has that job, and she assumes it with missionary zeal.) Women are the Other to these six-foot kids. Inside, the Apatow movies say, men are really lost boys looking for a Wendy. Or, ever better, another Peter Pan - a rebellious youth who'll never grow...
...while Bulgaria showed some reformist zeal in the run-up to joining the European club, momentum quickly slipped once Sofia was in, despite repeated warnings from Commission officials that lack of progress could hurt funding. This proves that "E.U. membership is no magic bullet, " says Diana Kovatcheva, Bulgarian head of anti-corruption group Transparency International. "The lack of administrative and management capacity and political will to undertake substantive anti-corruption measures hamper their success and enforcement." In the past, wayward new members have avoided punishment because Brussels' attention has slipped. The Commission's new tougher approach will establish whether punishment...
...current wave of prosecutorial zeal kicked off in February when German authorities arrested Klaus Zumwinkel, the CEO of Deutsche Post and one of the country's most prominent businessmen, for allegedly evading some $1 million in taxes by funneling money through foundations in Liechtenstein. The German tax cops got the goods on Zumwinkel with their own bit of skulduggery: they bought records stolen by a former employee of the Liechtenstein bank LGT Group, owned by that Alpine nation's royal family. Other tax authorities piled on, including the IRS. In February, the IRS said it was investigating more than...