Word: zealots
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...leaves the initiative in the hands of the naysayers. Although the truce is surviving one day at a time despite a steady daily death toll in minor clashes, all it would take to rekindle the blaze would be one suicide bombing in a crowded Israeli marketplace, or one settler zealot emptying his weapon into a crowd of Palestinians. And that's a serious concern, since there are substantial militant constituencies on both sides who have no interest in seeing the cease-fire hold...
...Middle East is moving beyond the stone stage. An "administration official" quoted by the New York Times uses the phrase "August, 1914." Is this tiny place about to reconfirm the twentieth century's logic of disastrous disproportions, whereby a seemingly miniscule cause (a Serb zealot at Sarajevo; an atom of uranium; an obscure housepainter in Vienna) brings on apocalyptic effects...
...sections. Both chuckle at how hard fealty comes to McCain. USAT off-leads with a avenge-your-father piece. WSJ discusses the absence of Dad's pledge-busting budgeteer, Dick Darman, in Son's inner circle, and the inclusion of Stephen Goldsmith, who's a privatization zealot from Indianapolis. "The most important guy you have never heard of at this convention... worth talking to this week." So that's what WSJ is doing with that huge press area...
...since taking over Project HEALTH, she has developed a near zealot intensity for her work...
...Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, the reporter who broke the Lewinsky case. "You [had] so many people who [were] portrayed as enemies of the Clintons and as driven by hatred and deep seated animus," he said. "The White House people were very successful in portraying Starr as the right-wing zealot when the truth is, he was not that...