Word: fervors
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...antismoking campaign at U.N.H. is Marc Hiller, a professor of health management and policy and the school's self-proclaimed clean-air czar. Sitting in an office overrun by public-health tomes and tobacco-research manuals, Hiller, 52, articulates a campus no-smoking initiative with the same kind of fervor that President Bush reserves for declarations about Saddam Hussein...
...restoration of the temple was henceforth the core concern of virtually every Indian. A nationalist tide of wounded pride swept India. Tension between Hindus and Muslims soared. RSS membership hit 4.5 million, and the BJP burst onto center stage. In December 1992, in a spectacular demonstration of religious fervor, a crowd of Hindu demonstrators broke down fences protecting the mosque, climbed onto its three domes and, within hours, tore it apart brick by brick. It was a lasting lesson in the power of political theater...
...dismayed both by the country's economic troubles and the infighting that has plagued the new leadership, notably between Kostunica and Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, former allies whose rivalry, diplomats say, is blocking reforms. The biggest casualty of Seselj's noisy run may be voter interest. His supporters' fervor is matched only by the disgust of many ordinary Serbs, who see his continued presence as proof that the whole process is tainted. Their failure to vote could leave the post open indefinitely. On a windswept afternoon last week in the Square of the Republic, an American official working...
...Hagens; a little more sensationalism would have been welcome. But while Von Hagens might not be the ideal person to resurrect the public autopsy in all its histrionic glory, his performance was a reminder of how the practice helped feed one of Europe's greatest periods of intellectual fervor. Even though we were there to record the scandalized reactions of the crowd, many journalists spent the night craning to look at parts of ourselves that we had only pictured before in an abstract way. Is my liver really that big? And my brain that small? Could those two conditions possibly...
...Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (A.K.P.)--which won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the Turkish parliament--has sharpened the focus on a sometimes inscrutable leader. In a country where mixing religion and politics can be a treasonable offense, Erdogan has tested the line dividing acceptable fervor from revolution. His background--he is a onetime Islamic youth activist who sent his own children to study in the U.S.--mirrors a broader contradiction in Turkish society. "He is about to show us," said one senior Western diplomat, "what Islamic politics means in Turkey...