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...true that a nominee's record and background often give good indications of job performance. But the fascination with public figures goes deeper than that. There's something appealing about finding out the intimate details about celebrities--you never know when dirt might appear. It was with a certain zeal that millions of Americans called their senators to complain about Zoe Baird's yuppie hubris. And it was with a certain satisfaction that those same Americans watched Baird decline her nomination...
...must win their tussle with the P.L.O., and it has become almost an even fight. Leaders in both Palestinian camps estimate that roughly 40% to 45% of the 1.8 million Arabs in the territories are Hamas supporters. The name Hamas, an acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," first appeared on political leaflets in 1987, but the organization was not formed until February 1988, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh, in which Hamas would play an increasingly important role...
...divisions that surfaced in the '60s. Inheriting a society profoundly riven by color and class, he knows that liberalism lost its political capital when it became perceived as something that taxed the majority to advance "special" -- which is to say, "minority" -- interests. Through an excess of gallantry and zeal, liberalism itself created the alienated "them" that deeded the Republicans the White House...
...zeal for institutional reform, two major issues remain unaddressed--access to courts and the correct assignation of blame. In an increasingly mobile post-industrial society, there is a ubiquity of harm. The safety nets traditionally provided by family and neighborhood have been diminished to a substantial degree. The sole means of redressing grievances and for establishing a proper standard of care lies with the courts...
...leading suppliers by reopening existing contracts and dispatching his teams of subordinates through supplier factories to preach productivity in one-week workshops. Lopez says he has already transformed more than 100 of GM's 2,500 suppliers, boosting their productivity an average 63%. He approaches his job with messianic zeal. "I like my wife," he proclaims, "but I love GM. We must love our company if we are going to pull it up. Our mother needs our help...