Word: fervorous
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...payer health-care system. But it wasn't some 10-point plan that turned Obama into a politician who fills arenas while others speak in school cafeterias. He knows that detailed policies tend to drive people apart rather than bring them together. People arrived to hear him out of fervor or mere curiosity, and they stayed for the sense of possibility. They heard rhetoric like this, from his speech claiming victory after his epic nomination battle: "If we are willing to work for it and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from...
...resolute stance on Tibet won much support from people here who increasingly see their fate tied to the booming mainland. For many, China is no longer the communist bogeyman that it once was for those living in the former British colony. "Hong Kongers are caught in the fervor of the Olympics," says Ma Ngok, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Even if they're not nationalist, they won't be inclined to be sympathetic toward Tibetans." Even Chan herself thinks self-determination for Tibetans is a "lost cause," but she intends to soldier on regardless...
...unmuffled bikes again sounded its response, filling the air with exhaust and making the ground quake. It was McCain's sort of crowd: heavy with vets and drunk with freedom-loving fervor. In the past, the Arizona Senator might have followed up with some "straight talk" or bad jokes, the informal shtick that won him New Hampshire twice. But the newest version of candidate McCain does not dillydally, soft-pedal or claim to live outside politics-as-usual. He hits hard and on message--one focused squarely on his opponent, the political phenom Barack Obama...
Obama won a big battle with solid reviews of his overseas trip, but he may have lost the war, as the public appeared to react with less fervor than the media. With fewer than 100 days to go, both sides are gearing up for a tight race...
...cosmopolitan filmmaker from the Arab world, who speaks for himself but reflects the dreams and fears of a people whose popular culture is nearly unknown in the U.S. In the lyrics from that song in An Egyptian Story we hear, in all their naked emotion, the national fervor and questing heart of Youssef Chahine...