Owens, a lawyer and global-warming zealot lacking any scientific expertise, was widely criticized as a fanatic and job-killer while he headed the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
His middle name testifies to the extreme Methodism of his mother, which he rebelled against in his 1915 depiction of the evangelist Billy Sunday as a fanatic.
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While some natives approach the race with great seriousness--Nedeau, for example, is such a fanatic about saving weight that he tells his crew to cut off the bottoms of their toothbrushes--Comeaux injects some fun.
Critics called him a fanatic, but those who worked with him - as I did during eight years in the Reagan State Department -- knew he was a savvy judge of political opportunity who did not like to waste ammunition.
Professor KATHLEEN FLAKE (Vanderbilt University): He had to assure the public at large that he wasn't a demagogue, that he wasn't a fanatic, that he wasn't a cult member, and at the same time assure people of the far right that he wasn't going to abandon their need that religion be in the public square.
Orbanes' book suffers from disorganization, and he offers too much information about abstruse Monopoly tournaments: Not surprising, given that he's a game fanatic, a former Parker Brothers executive and president of a gaming company called Winning Moves.
Now with his third wife, he is a fitness fanatic, with a penchant for cross-country skiing and also pilots gliders, helicopters, light aircraft and larger jets, including the Boeing 747.
Jack Nicklaus is not a fitness fanatic, and as a young golfer was notoriously unfit, yet over nearly four decades he has nonetheless won 18 major titles.
Earlier, Miyamoto, a bluegrass fanatic, had suggested that learning to play a game is like learning to play a musical instrument.
And like many ex-smokers, he's a health fanatic, lecturing anyone he meets for transgressions as slight as drinking a diet soda.
She's also something of a fibre fanatic - try telling her that satellite or 4G or any number of other technologies might be a more economic way of filling in the gaps in broadband coverage, and you'll get short shrift.
Actor and rapper LL Cool J, more of a basketball fanatic, has even caught the fever.
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In 1921, Takashi Hara, prime minister of Japan, was assassinated by a rightist fanatic.
"We didn't want to do just one tour, " says Bronfman, a music fanatic.
DeLay says Earle, who is a Democrat, is a partisan fanatic and would do anything to take DeLay down.
La Leche League meetings are well attended and everyone has a breast feeding fanatic friend or knows a pushy lactation consultant.
As a baseball fanatic above all else, the chance to dive into an all-baseball, all-the-time situation was too much to pass up.
In November, a religious fanatic assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
You needn't become a Quicken fanatic who enters the purpose of every penny spent, he adds, but you do need to know what you spend overall. 5. (optional) Consolidate your holdings.
India's polarities killed both protagonists: the Mahatma was shot by a Hindu fanatic enraged by his solicitude towards Muslims, Indira by her Sikh bodyguards, provoked by an attack she authorised on Punjabi separatists who had seized Sikhism's holiest site.
Of course, a president who feels that one religion's as easy to disbelieve in as another can't fathom the depths of faith in a Muslim fanatic any more than he can grasp the benign devotion of an American Roman Catholic, Baptist or Jew.
Was Alexander a religious fanatic?
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But, no, the name is actually an homage to the legendary Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx, and also a sidelong way for the owner, Christian Pappanicholas, a cycling fanatic who owns Resto, the Belgian restaurant next door, to summon the spirit of the hard-core carnivore.
The memoirs, both of which were New York Times best sellers, transformed the award-winning journalist into the son of Big Russ, a Buffalo Bills fanatic, and finally, a husband and father.
Mr Hilton, a keep fit fanatic, was taken to Winchester railway station where he got on a train heading to his home town of Eastleigh.
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Even though it is pretty clear that the shooter was not a Tea Party fanatic, it is becoming clear that some commentators are using the shooting as a pretext to further marginalize ideas with which they disagree.
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Even by the standards of his fellow Greens, Mr Goldsmith is a single-minded fanatic or perhaps just a Great British Eccentric, depending on your generosity of spirit.
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