Word: zealots
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Half-Life of a Zealot By Swanee Hunt Duke University Press...
...profusion of stars and stripes in the U.S. post-9/11, this struck me as quite odd. Germany’s bare flagpoles were part and parcel of the same sheepishness that has clouded the German consciousness since 1945. To be a proud German was to be a zealot, not too far removed from the Nazi hyper-nationalism that reduced Europe to debris in WWII. This week, stepping out of the Munich central station revealed a completely different country. Black, red, and gold were everywhere; every single balcony and awning had its own flag. What made German national pride acceptable...
That is one image of Ariel Sharon: the right-wing zealot. In the past few years, another reputation has taken hold: Sharon reborn as peacemaker. The idea is that, having achieved his dream of becoming Prime Minister of Israel in 2001 at the age of 73, Sharon would?in a Nixon-goes-to-China kind of way?become the man to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians once and for all. That was his campaign slogan: "Only Sharon can bring peace." And people inside and outside Israel began to believe it after Sharon, the man who once planned and nurtured...
...Administration to his three years as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to the past 15 years as a Newark-based judge on the Third Circuit Appeals Court--he has earned a reputation as the antithesis of the brash, grating Scalia. "He's conservative, but he's not a zealot at all," says Paul Fishman, a Democrat and attorney from New York City, who worked under Alito at the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey, when Alito strove to put away corrupt politicians and drug dealers--all while wooing his future wife Martha-Ann, a research librarian...
...never been a zealot about his positions,” says Hirsch. “He’s always been open-minded and had friends with a lot of different political viewpoints but never proselytized people to his position...