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...come to Christ. Can you imagine 100, or 300, come to Christ in your school? We want to see our campuses come to Christ." Watchdog organizations like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State report cases in which such zeal has approached harassment of students and teachers, student prayer leaders have seemed mere puppets for adult evangelists, and activists have tried to establish prayer clubs in elementary schools, where the description "student-run" seems disingenuous...
Remember Whitewater? Hacking through that thorny bramble of failed land deals and shady bank loans was supposed to be Ken Starr's big mission. But since January, it has often seemed that the independent counsel, in his zeal to prove the President tried to cover up extramarital sex, had forgotten all about Arkansas. Now Starr appears ready to close up shop in Little Rock. And there's no sign that his effort--which will have consumed four years and as much as $50 million when all is said and done--will result in any charges being filed against Bill...
...Army no matter which way the verdicts went in the sexual-misconduct case against former Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, once the service's highest-ranking enlisted man and one of its most prominent African Americans. But the Army, having gone ahead and prosecuted its case with zeal after some initial skittishness in the face of McKinney's adamant denials and his countercharges of racial scapegoating, could scarcely have done worse. The military jury came back with a verdict of not guilty on 18 of 19 counts and found McKinney guilty on only one charge, of obstructing justice...
...learning as the most idealized of students. Kohl also shows the reader the dark side of his experiences as an educator, placing considerable emphasis on the squalid conditions in which his students spent forty hours a week. He lambastes indifferent school directors and educational boards with as much zeal as he supports the creative power of his students. Kohl points out case after case of wasted time and money, antiquated lunch programs leftover from the Roosevelt era, and badly needed text-books that rot away in basements due to simple neglect on the part of educational directors...
...that represents a change from the days when Luce's global agendas infused these pages. The son of a Presbyterian missionary in China, Luce inherited a zeal to spread American values and Christianize the communist world. He was very up front about his approach. In the prospectus that he wrote with Hadden, he noted that "complete neutrality...is probably as undesirable as it is impossible," and he proceeded to lay out a litany of what would be the new magazine's "prejudices...