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...they don't. Though Hunter has said from the first that JonBenet's parents were "a focus" of the investigation--and says it still--many police and other critics think he has no zeal to prosecute them. Indeed, they say, historically he has not been enthusiastic about prosecuting anybody; police bitterly accuse him of negotiating far too many plea bargains. Dale Stange, just retired as a Boulder patrolman, says the D.A. has long been known to the police as "Alex Let's-Make-a-Deal Hunter." Carla Selby, a community activist, voices another suspicion: "There's a feeling that Alex...
...were finally brought around to admitting the truths on which the scientists' work was based. Lister, in particular, was ridiculed or ignored by his fellow surgeons, who refused to acknowledge the marvels he was accomplishing. But he forced himself to overcome his own gentle nature, persisting with the zeal of an evangelist. In the end, honored by Queen Victoria as Baron Lister, he lived to see his name ranked with those of the greatest medical thinkers of all time. As for Virchow, so revered did his theories make him that he came to be admiringly called "the pope of German...
...their zeal to offer alternative explanations for racial disparities, the Thernstroms often construct tenuous arguments. Studies have repeatedly agreed with blacks' complaints of redlining, but the Thernstroms posit that the key factor is more likely low black income--as if the fault lies with black people who don't know how to read their checkbook balance before they venture forth to buy a house...
American business has had its share of imaginative entrepreneurs, malevolent bosses, boardroom plotters who hatch late-night coups, strategic decision makers who make disastrous turns and heroic turnaround artists who restore corporate glory with breakthrough thinking and messianic zeal. Generally, that would describe more than one person. But Jobs is a one-man miniseries of capitalism whose ratings are rising again. Within hours of the announcement, Apple stock soared 33% to $26.31. Sipping a celebratory water on the plane ride home, Jobs pointed out that people had been so shocked they missed the big news: Microsoft would be paying...
...begun to fear for the survival of Columbia (1996 revenues: $19.9 billion), which has long been a lightning rod for critics of for-profit hospitals. Directors were worried that Scott's stonewalling of federal probes of Columbia's Medicare billings and home-health-care practices would only inflame the zeal of investigators and prosecutors and make a face-saving settlement impossible. And Columbia, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., was reportedly exploring a merger with Tenet Healthcare of Santa Barbara, Calif., the country's second largest hospital company. That deal would have been threatened by Columbia's prospective legal problems...