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Having apparently grown tired of obsessing over just how skeletal the Ally McBeal Über -waif has become, the tabs take a different tack: They bare their fangs and become positively McCarthyesque in their zeal to rat out celebs who've become the least bit unsvelte.
Islamabad, Riyadh and, by extension, Washington may yet come to regret their reported support for a Sunni movement that apparently now exceeds Shiah Iran in its fundamentalist zeal and potential appeal to discontented Sunni populations.
On his Web site is a profile touting his anti-tax zeal.
All except the lord chancellor, although, the Telegraph reassures its readers, "his request to walk forwards stems from a desire to avoid an accident rather than from any modernising zeal."
But within months of forming his own party, the Marxist Workers League, Mienov purged all its members for a lack of revolutionary zeal.