Word: zeal
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...prizewinning memoirist and New York Times columnist Russell Baker, 68, who originally declined the offer by saying, "I don't want to be the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke. I want to be the man who succeeds the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon, now a candidate for mayor of Boston, considered the aw-shucks Baker "a great television event waiting to happen. He's Cooper, Ray Milland, all the great movie faces wrapped into...
...cliquish Arabs were sometimes viewed with suspicion by their Afghan brothers, who sensed that the volunteers had a wider agenda. Even so, their zeal in combat amazed even the fearless Afghans. "The Arabs were crazy fighters, charging into any fire," recalls Ahmed Muwafak Zaidan, a Syrian writer who covered the war. An Egyptian scholar in Pakistan remembers Abouhalima and conspiracy defendant Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali as "very good commanders who fought in various provinces" of Afghanistan...
Roiphe does make several persuasive points. She charges that college feminists, in their zeal to raise awareness about date rape, have given new life to an old stereotype: the innocent woman who must be constantly protected from men's dangerous sexuality. Definitions of date rape, she contends, now include circumstances ("verbal coercion") that trivialize real acts of sexual violence. Regretted indiscretions of the night before, Roiphe insists, cannot become rape the morning after...
...Adnan refers to are his fellow supporters of Hamas. Of all the organizations eager to kill the rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs, the militant Muslim fundamentalist group is probably the greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh...
...verdict was a bitter disappointment for New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whose early zeal was a driving force behind the July 1991 seizure of the bank. Despite the setback, however, his investigation to date has yielded convictions of B.C.C.I. and its principal front man, indictments of its key executives, and forfeitures totaling $750 million...