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...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...
...small child, Betty Zhang watched zealous Red Guards beat her mother. At 16 she put up posters on Beijing's Democracy Wall and organized demonstrations in her home village. At 22 she was locked up in a Chinese gulag, judged without trial to be a counter-revolutionary subversive. For months she was confined to a dank room the size of a bed, spending her days in solitary silence, enduring torture with an electric prod and the painful, gratuitous removal of bone marrow from her spine. Released in March 1990 after more than six years in prison, Zhang was denied...
...zealous advocate of his clients' interests and always a gentleman and a man of great integrity," Ryan said...
...prospect of a zealous home crowd is very appealing to the wrestlers, who have faced hostile fans all year long. In a sport that gets little publicity at any level, the thrill of a cheering fan base can be intoxicating. So obviously Friedman is hoping to "Pack the Mac" at 7:30 tonight...
...anxious, Herman is cool and unflappable. And so it is all the more remarkable that two quite different people, nominated to do quite different jobs, now face an identical problem when their confirmation hearings begin. Republicans want to ask both nominees how much they knew about John Huang, the zealous Democratic Party fund raiser who made regular visits to the White House last year and whose network of foreign donors has led to a Justice Department investigation...