Word: zeal
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Professor of Anthropology Mary M. Steedly described Kleinman as a “pioneer of the field,” adding that she is equally impressed with the passion and zeal Kleinman shows for his teaching...
...those numbers do not reveal the intensity on both sides--the zeal of those who regard Bush as the very ideal of American presidential leadership and those who regard him as an embarrassing and dangerous usurper. Nor does it take full account of a more paradoxical group: those who like his personality but loathe his policies and want him out of the White House. Fully 81% of Republicans say they like the job that Bush is doing; only 31% of Democrats do. "The President is a strong leader. He's very determined. He doesn't seem to be swayed...
...increasing numbers who have doubts about the original mission to Iraq--only 55% approved of it in the TIME/CNN poll, down from 65% at the time of the invasion--Bush's policy was driven by everything from a thirst for oil to a crusading interventionist zeal. And the postwar problems bother them even more: the inability to find weapons of mass destruction, the shifting rationales for the conflict, the continuing bloodshed. All are causing doubts not only about the Administration's credibility but also about its competence. "I don't like the fact that Bush totally failed to finish...
...born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown. "My zeal for combative sports never cooled down," Akebono says. Plus, he wants shapelier calves...
...conceived from the start or a matter of everything going wrong that could? Was it a mistake not to go to a military court in the first place, or is the case going exactly the way it should for a government that may have overplayed its hand in the zeal to show it was combatting terrorism? It's unclear whether anyone could have foreseen the twists and turns, such as Moussaoui becoming his own counsel, that began to unravel the government's case. But the case now is pivotal for another reason: it has become a showdown between the basic...