Word: zeal
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Putin told Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline last Friday that he was bringing in, as investigators, former KGB colleagues "who are untarnished and have no connection with corruption." Still, the jury is out on the level of Putin's anticorruption zeal. Two prominent members of the Family, Dyachenko and Yumashev, are actively involved in his election campaign. But clouds seem to be thickening over the head of Berezovsky, the most unpopular and pugnacious of the so-called oligarchs. A belief is growing among Russia's political and business elite that Putin wants to destroy Berezovsky's political power. There...
...Aristotle says, democracy is the rule of the poor, we might just as well say it's the rule of underdogs. Perhaps democracy is a sustained rebellion against those who, by virtue of their virtue, have a just claim to rule. Zeal for the underdog, then, is a leveling, equalizing, smashing impulse--in short, rebelliousness...
Today is the last day of February, and across campus the World's Luckiest Kids are griping with a superhuman zeal. Midterms are approaching, the need to show leadership in extracurriculars is growing, and judging by that smell, a giant baby has spit up in your common room (or maybe that's just my common room). We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the crme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook...
...results" was startlingly disingenuous coming from an establishment candidate, especially as his proposed ban on soft money would place few limits on the contributions of wealthy individuals. Bush's website now spouts the phrase "reformer with results" so many times that it occasionally forgets to include verbs in its zeal to portray Bush as an outsider: "Of the major candidates, the only one who does not have a D.C. ZIP code." (Perhaps this technique is, in some way, a subtle reflection of the candidate...
This notable lack of zeal could be a serious lapse on the part of the prosecutors or part of a larger plan unknowable to everyone watching the trial; or, as TIME columnist Jack White speculates, it could be a calculated risk designed to fell the most vulnerable, and culpable, of the four officers. "It may be the prosecution feels the case appears to be strongest against Carroll," says White. And with that in mind, the logic continues, it doesn't make sense to waste prosecutorial ammunition on the three other cops, who may have amounted to mere accessories. Prosecutors know...