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President Bill Clinton, embattled on so many political fronts these days, made sure to capitalize on the zeal of the Pope's flock and the accompanying media attention. He welcomed the Pontiff at the airport and immediately rated John Paul's initial remarks "a great speech." Never mind that the Pope urged America to stop abortions as he stood alongside the pro-choice President. "All the great causes that are yours today will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life and protect the human person," declared John Paul. Following their 45-minute meeting...
Nevertheless, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human-rights and research organization with headquarters in Los Angeles, vowed to carry on with even more zeal. The center pointed to valuable new investigative avenues afforded them by the collapse of the Soviet regime, which has opened up what one U.S. Justice Department official called "an embarrassment of investigative riches," and by the unification of Germany, where prosecutors can now avail themselves of literally miles of formerly closed East German secret police archives...
...Some bare their demons flagrantly, others let their horns peek out from under a halo of good intentions. Matthew Sweet, who likes to mix bad-boy guitar licks with well- mannered melodies, belongs among the latter. As a lyricist, Sweet writes about girls and God with the same confessional zeal, seemingly torn between hardened skepticism and the promise of faith and romantic redemption. Yet despite his doubts -- or perhaps because he still cares enough to wonder -- Providence has smiled...
...Cosby is driven by his civil rights zeal. If an ambition to be America's most prominent black big shot is zeal for civil rights, then sure. But Cosby's moralist impulses are often a crank's misguided preachiness. In 1988 he joined the race-baiting Tawana Brawley scam. His NBC, according to associates, would have no place for a bad-attitude show such as The Simpsons...
While all five of the teaching hospitals are tertiary care facilities, dealing with the most complicated and life-threatening maladies, the Deaconess pursues such activities with a single-minded zeal. The hospital has no obstetrics department, no pediatrics department and no ordinary emergency room...