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The recent heavy defeat of the Taliban in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif highlights both its failure to incorporate ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks, or Shiah Hazaras into its leadership, and its refusal to moderate its Islamic zeal.
Madrid is the focus of that fiercest of Spanish customs, the bullfight, and local ferias and fiestas like San Isidro, a celebration of the city’s patron saint, are prepared and attended with the same zeal that they are in small Spanish towns.
On his Web site is a profile touting his anti-tax zeal.
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.
Converted to Islam in the tenth century, and fired by religious zeal, the Seljuks overran Anatolia, menacing Christian holy places and attacking the pilgrims bound for Jerusalem.