Word: zealots
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...strength comes not from a six-gun temperament but from judgment that has matured through three years of hard testing. His vital audience is not that portion of the electorate that sees him as a savior, nor is it the inflamed opposition that calls him a liar and a zealot. He needs to reach the voters who are unsure about either voting for him or voting at all; who don't think he lied but may think he made mistakes; who like his manner but question his judgment; who are glad Saddam is gone but wonder if the price...
...comparing notes with CARMEN BIN LADIN. In 1974 this half-Swiss, half-Persian daughter of an aristocrat married a Saudi named Yeslam and inherited more than 50 sisters-and brothers-in-law, one of whom was Yeslam's younger half brother Osama bin Laden--then a mere religious zealot she describes as "not strikingly different from the other brothers." In her new book, Inside the Kingdom, bin Ladin details the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia and within the bin Laden clan. Her first child was a girl and, writes bin Ladin, "Yeslam simply walked out when he learned that...
...what makes people believe, what makes people want to believe and what makes belief fail. To this end he surrounds Nicole with a bestiary of believers who try to come to terms with her gifts in different ways: the oddly named (but historically real) Barbe Acarie, a beautiful, wealthy zealot who takes Nicole into her home; Henry IV, the roguish but humane King of France, for whom faith is a matter of politics; and Rene Monnet, a skeptical doctor puzzled by the would-be wonder worker's hold over him: "There was nothing of carnal seduction about Nicole...
...little choice but to stay. "We still feel we have something to contribute," says Bhandari. Rana is more emphatic, arguing that as entrepreneurs, taxpayers and employers, individuals like he and Bhandari did more to bring Nepal into the modern age and alleviate hardship than any politician, diplomat or revolutionary zealot. "You know, I built this out of a cowshed," he says, gazing out over his empty, impeccably tasteful dream. "Everyone thought I was mad, and perhaps even more so now. But I wasn't, you know. I was a success. And for a time there, it was glittering...
...suggest that this fundamentally alters the nature of Britain as a nation state." But many E.U. countries, and almost all the countries about to join, are planning referendums. Tories and powerful right-wing newspapers smell blood and are whipping up a powerful campaign, calling Blair a pro-Europe zealot who's denying the popular will. Last week, the Daily Mail announced it would hold its own referendum on June 12, using thousands of polling stations, postal ballots and e-mail votes. But Blair doesn't have much room...