The night before, the same group, ISIS, devoted, among so many other hatreds, to war against Hezbollah, claimed responsibility for exploding bombs that killed 43 people in Beirut.
And since the early works, along with his long running editorship of the journal La Critica, rocketed him to such fame and admiration, whereas later years were devoted among other things to battling with while being tolerated by fascists, it's not surprising that he never quite lost this habit.
Mr. Anastasio enjoys a rabidly devoted following among jam-band devotees.
The service ethic still has devoted champions among doctors, teachers, nurses, social workers, academics, broadcasters, judges, trade-union officials, local government officials and NGO workers.
As one of two major rivers in China still unimpeded by dams, the Nu has a fiercely devoted following among environmentalists who have grown despondent over the destruction of many of China's waterways.
Ms. Rubin, all of 18 inches tall, is the newest historical character doll to be released by American Girl, the company in Middleton, Wis., whose products have a rabidly devoted following among the female 7- to 12-year-old set.
To judge by this new anthology, the coming of modernism didn't change things all that much: one encounters plenty of vatic pronouncements in the pages devoted to, among others, Muriel Rukeyser, Kenneth Rexroth, William Everson, H. D. and Olson.
Yet with little evidence to support them, multiple theories of Columbus's early years have long found devoted proponents among those who would claim alternative bragging rights to the explorer.
At around the same time one of Ms Munger's brothers donated $10m to a committee devoted to, among other things, trashing Prop 30.Under heavy fire, this week Ms Munger's campaign dropped its attack ad, claiming gamely that it had made its point.
In the late 1940s, the flag was adopted as a symbol of the Dixiecrats -- a political party devoted to, among other things, maintaining segregation.
She developed a devoted following there among her students and peers.
