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...that's the way it plays out, because the reformist zeal sweeping Congress today will probably dissipate before long. As the new members eager for change graduate into the permanent ruling Establishment, they won't want to leave either...
...matter how hard such programs are bashed by conservatives, it doesn't alter the fact that public broadcasting has produced a virtual treasure chest of documentaries dealing with the humanities, politics and the sciences. What Gingrich has forgotten in his unrelenting zeal to wipe out the "liberal media" is that more than a million children in his home state of Georgia actually learn reading and language skills through the programs broadcast by the Children's Television Workshop...
...Crimson's decision to endorse ballot Question 9 on Election Day was disappointing and shocking ("Vote Yes on 9", Opinion, Nov. 4, 1994). This proposition to end rent control in Massachusetts was flawed from the start in its zeal to abolish, rather than reform, the existing system...
Whether writing cookbooks or appearing in her famous television show, Child strove to spread her zeal for preparing food. Across the country "Julia-watchers" saw her in the kitchen, infectiously enthusiastic, her flour-drenched hands reaching for the inevitable glass of red wine. Through her happy, expert engagement in the practice of cooking--in stuffing sausage casings by hand, in halving a winter squash with mallet and cleaver--she made food preparation appealing, and even enticing. In her book The Way to Cook she introduces "A Fast Saute of Beef for Two" as "something to keep in mind...
...coterie of loyalists expanded considerably once affluent women began to reject the gold-chain-belt opulence of the 1980s. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see that they 'get it,"' says Sander, who often speaks with missionary zeal for her aesthetic. "I see so many people following, and that's such a nice thing. You see they are getting better taste, better culture; they understand why something doesn't have to be seen from 100 meters away." Says Martha Stewart of her Sander wardrobe: "Jil's responded to the needs of people like me. I'm busy; I travel...