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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...
Born in Minneapolis and raised in Los Angeles, he lapped up the best of midcentury America's comic culture: the visual surrealism of Ernie Kovacs' TV shows, the lunatic satire of Harvey Kurtzman's Mad and Humbug comic books. Yet even then there was a zealot budding in him. He planned to become a missionary, until he had what he laughingly terms an "anti-epiphany" one day at Disneyland. Smartly dressed, he was turned away from the theme park by security guards for having long hair. "Suddenly this place I'd adored seemed in my animator's imagination like...
Some of Gilliam's films have been hits: Time Bandits, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys (his biggest earner, grossing nearly $169 million on a $30 million budget). Yet the zealot's rep sticks to him and makes potential backers wonder, What catastrophe will befall him this time...