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...system. If I vanish, another prosecutor will be ready to try the case within a month. And let's not kid ourselves about who has more resources." She says the fact that she is Italian and from the same neighborhood as Gotti has nothing to do with her zeal to prosecute the Mafia. "It has never occurred...
...zeal to win this confrontation, the House approved a provision requiring the President to deploy, within 30 days after the law takes effect, "armed forces sufficient to halt the unlawful penetration of U.S. borders by aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics." The proposal, yet to be considered by the Senate, allows soldiers to arrest drug smugglers captured in "hot pursuit" and, with blithe unrealism, orders the President to "substantially halt" drug trafficking within 45 days of military deployment...
...idea of avant-gardism -- made him seem like a fuddy-duddy to some younger sculptors, particularly in the '60s. It might have been otherwise had he behaved like the Great English Artist people were always making him out to be, but he was utterly without pretension, and his zeal for public service, as long as it did not get in the way of his work, was genuine. He was consulted by British Prime Ministers, from Anthony Eden to Margaret Thatcher, on museum and art-education policy and never failed to stand up to them on behalf of younger or less...
...Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino told jurors in a packed Los Angeles courtroom. "These were not deaths in which someone can get up and wipe the bloody-looking catsup off their faces . . . They were very, very real deaths." Indeed, said D'Agostino, it was Director John Landis' "zeal for realism" during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie that took the lives of Actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on July...
...counts as a member anyone who does volunteer work for the movement and attends its meetings. Its followers, who are sometimes referred to as the "new Jesuits," strive to recapture souls for Christianity and fight Communism throughout the world. Their zeal and energy appeal greatly to Pope John Paul II, who in his travels has preached against both Marxism and materialism. Committed to a variety of social programs, C.L. runs neighborhood cultural centers and evening courses for the unemployed. Says a university student from northern Italy: "We all want to do something useful in life. That's what makes...