Word: fanaticism
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Some of my best friends are consultants. They tend to be the most entertaining people in the political community: eccentric, fanatic, creative, violently verbal and deeply hilarious-the sort of people who sat in the back of the room in high school and shot spitballs at the future politicians sitting...
Phillips’ role of Jurgen Aregretzat is a little reminiscent of the Nazi fanatic Franz from Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” whether it is because of the similarity in their military costumes, their heavy accents, or their defining obsessions with the Fuhrer...
To his detractors, Ariel Sharon will always seem the fanatic. He convinced Menachem Begin that invading Lebanon in 1982 would be worth the costs, and in 2000 he insisted on visiting the Temple Mount, the Muslim-controlled holy site in Jerusalem?a walkabout that helped trigger the second intifadeh. As...
(4 of 6) AMERICAN VALUES TIME: U.S. President George W. Bush speaks very openly and genuinely about his religious values. How do you find that? LEE: I had this argument with a European leader, who said to me, "We Europeans don't like [Bush's] telephone line to God." And...
The excerpt from Dr. Andrew Weil's book Healthy Aging was well presented [Oct. 24]. Weil gave a balanced view of nutritional advice on aging, and I was glad to see someone point out the dubious nature of the antiaging business. Most of what we spend on vitamin supplements and...