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...ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains. Appointed to clean up the corrupt Moscow party committee, he quickly fired hundreds of bureaucrats and barnstormed the city, criticizing food shortages and general incompetence. But his reforming zeal and a bitter public debate with Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev led to his public censure and ouster from the Moscow party position in November...
Thus when the committee finally began confirmation hearings on Jan. 25, Tower performed with the zeal of a new convert to Pentagon parsimony. He assured the Senators that he backed cuts in the Pentagon budget, including reduced funding for strategic missile defense. At the end of Tower's crisp testimony, the Senators burst into rare applause...
...road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and Defeat Homophobia's zeal was misplaced. The group's eagerness to advance its cause led it to spotlight the Sunday incident, and to turn what should have been an important consciousnessraising session into the most bitter and divisive event I have seen in my three years at Mather House. If their intent was to educate students about homophobia and intolerance and to help the Mather community to become more open and understanding, the members of Defeat Homophobia were negligent in rallying around the Sunday incident...
...fundamental desire of Americans to own their own property, by luck or by pluck, has inspired some creative ways to reclaim the dream. In fact, the rapid increase in prices has prompted many potential buyers to hasten their search, since waiting would put them farther behind. In their zeal to raise down payments, young buyers are raiding their retirement accounts -- and duly paying the penalties -- or ceding part of the equity in their homes to outside investors. Others are turning for help to state-financed programs and innovative private and nonprofit housing developers...
...Secretary of Treasury, a qualified blind trust (whose owner knows what assets it contains, though he has no say in when they are bought and sold) was deemed sufficient. But after White House ethics chief C. Boyden Gray, who had also run afoul of the stricter rules, focused the zeal of the newly converted on the Baker portfolio (and conveniently deflected attention away from his own problems with the new rules), nothing short of complete divestiture would...