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...doldrums of economic necessities (at the occasional cost of an eyeball). Yet if reasons for every act have to be given, or at least deciphered, no one can have such flushes of energy. Life becomes a set of formulae for the individual to choose amongst and pursue with unquestioning zeal...
...risk is a campaign that revolves around gamesmanship rather than substance. Right after Labor Day, Clinton stepped in to tone down the hyperactivity of the campaign's war room, with its zeal to respond instantly to every G.O.P. charge. The constant counterpunching, Clinton believed, was overshadowing his larger message. Within the campaign, the power of the war room and its generals -- communications director George Stephanopoulos and top strategist James Carville -- has been a source of envy. "It has taken George and Carville months to realize that they have to trust Bill Clinton's instincts," says a well-placed campaign official...
...adopted five or more children. Barbara Tremitiere, a consultant on child-welfare issues (and the mother of 15 children, 12 of them adopted), knows of several families that have taken in more than 30 kids. Rutgers University psychology professor David Brodzinsky observes in these parents "a tendency toward missionary zeal -- a reaching out, in a spiritual or religious sense, to those more needy." Many of these parents are children of the '60s who adopted Asian kids instead of the most wanted Gerber babies. "They were committed to causes," says Tremitiere. "And this is a very great cause...
...cold-warrior credentials served as a visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor more crusading zeal, while still others want to curtail overseas involvement...
...Florio. Among the latest to fall was a Florio centerpiece: the nation's toughest restrictions on military-style assault weapons. By margins that may be veto-proof, the lawmakers lifted the ban on the sale and possession of dozens of dangerous rapid-fire guns -- though not, even in their zeal, on the notorious Uzis...