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...participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens could try to invoke the basketball rule: no harm, no foul. Or they could claim that when White House aides made remarks merely to express dislike and suspicion of Stephens (the aides make no secret they consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President), those statements were misinterpreted as a demand that Stephens be fired. Still, as a Clinton aide admits, while "the actual words used before the grand jury regarding how we felt about the RTC iring Stephens were 'surprise and shock,' among ourselves the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Line of Fire | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

Baruch Goldstein: Portrait of a murderous zealot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron in the West Bank. About a year ago, he was heard to prophesy, in a synagogue no less, that "there will come a day when a Jew will get up and kill many Arabs for killing Meir Kahane" -- the Jewish zealot slain in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Nelson Wivel, who is the head of the NIH's Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, defends the experiment. Anderson's detractors, he notes, "call him a zealot. But if it weren't for his zealotry, we probably wouldn't be doing gene therapy." Indeed, it was the ADA trial by Anderson, Blaese and Dr. Kenneth Culver that opened the floodgates for dozens of gene-therapy efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battler for Gene Therapy | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

Somehow, I seem to be the only one in the whole huddled mass of worn, jaded travelers that shuttles routinely from city to city who still seems excited about air travel. Mention "Orville and Wilbur," and most people think of a popcorn zealot and a talkative pig. I'm the only one who can't forget--and who can't take flying for granted...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: She Loves to Fly, and It shows | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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