Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ZEALOT ON ANY SIDE OF THE origin-of-species debate, but when I read the headline "Evolution's Big Bang," I got excited. It implied that a group of scientists has somehow figured everything out and that the Big Bang is no longer a theory but fact. But actually this concept of evolving life should still only be referred to as a theory, because it cannot be scientifically proved. DOUG WEST Lebanon, Oregon Via E-mail...
Amir was different in that he saw it as his mission to act on the words of the militants, and in so doing, he revealed himself to be an assassin and a zealot like Paul Hill or Sirhan Sirhan or Lee Harvey Oswald. Fundamentalists are distinguished not by their cause but by their mind. Cause provides fundamentalists with the vehicle for their designs, but then again, a rational purpose is not always required...
...righteousness of the hero is corrupted in the arrogance of the zealot. The zealot's mind mixes faith, reason and ego to come to its fatal conclusion. Amir's "wisdom" brought him to interpret the militants' belief in a divinely ordained "Greater Israel" as an end in itself, worthy of denying the divine principle of justice on which such a state must be founded...
Heck, he's Fob James. The Republican landslide that transformed the U.S. Congress last fall also ushered in a gaggle of ardent G.O.P. conservatives in state capitals around the country. But James, 60, is more a throwback than a young zealot. He has spent his first seven months in office loading up one discarded policy of the Old South after the other and lobbing them at Alabama's moderates, minorities and, yes, at the federal judiciary. "We are going in the same direction as the rest of the country, but we are more extreme," says Auburn University professor Wayne Flynt...
There social worker Kee MacFarlane (Lolita Davidovich) gets the kids to claim that they were repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to witness the slaughter of rabbits and other animals. Like Lael Rubin (Mercedes Ruehl), the lead prosecutor in the McMartin case, MacFarlane is portrayed as a dangerously misguided zealot. During her videotaped interviews (portions of which are excerpted verbatim from the transcripts), children initially deny abuse until MacFarlane goads them with such remarks as "Are you gonna be stupid, or are you gonna be smart and help us out here...