Word: zealotism
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...place. Even before the independent counsel seized on Linda Tripp's taped evidence, in mid-January, of an affair between the President and Monica Lewinsky, the White House and its allies had played up Starr's G.O.P. credentials. But their efforts to demonize the independent counsel as a reckless zealot haven't stuck. And so the White House has recently pushed hard the idea that Starr has gathered around him an army of prosecutorial cowboys with less-than-perfect records in places like Miami and Los Angeles. Sometime last month, the Administration, lawyers for other witnesses and just about everyone...
...expensive building block." If football can increase prime-time ratings by 1 point, "That could throw $50 million to the bottom line for a full season," says Pilson. For the stations, that can mean an additional $100 million a year. That's good enough even for a bottom-line zealot like Mel Karmazin, chairman of the CBS Station Group. Said he: "We know better than anybody else what it's like to have the NFL and what it's like not to have the NFL. And it sure as hell is a whole lot better to have...
...with its G.O.P. predecessors, Alan Greenspan has long been a man of surprises. But none is more startling than his recent transformation in the public mind. Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal of zero inflation. Today those jeers have melted to mild sarcasm. ALL HAIL SAINT ALAN, read buttons distributed by Bert Ely, an economic consultant who contends Greenspan is getting undeserved credit for the happy state of the U.S. economy...
...zealot--I use Microsoft Internet Explorer over Netscape Navigator because I think it's a better product--but it seems like most people aren't aware of the ferocious campaign Microsoft is waging on all fronts of the computer revolution. The scariest part is, it's doing a hell...
Paul Frohock '79 is the ambitious writer-actor-director who tries to mold Forbidden Fruits into a cogent plea for environmental sanity. The play lacks the credibility, acting, and surprise, however, that it needs to impress the polluting zealot with the gravity and foolishness of his actions. Polluting zealots aside, the play never seems to establish a rapport with its audience, leaving Forbidden Fruii up on the stage, away from the audience, a simple dialogue between some actors...