OXFORD In almost every rich country, anti immigrant fervor is at fever pitch.

Political fervor, it seems, has not vanished in the land of Rousseau and Danton.

So far, the crowds in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez have been neither violent, nor inflamed by religious fervor.

The Arab world is beaming with pride as its revolution fervor is being recognised as a peaceful movement.

They prepared for inclusion of eight former Communist countries (as well Cyprus and Malta) with almost quasi religious fervor.

Kim Jong il was greeted with the same fervor when he entered the opera house that today marks public mourning of his death.

The use and abuse of religious fervor, whether jihadi or Hindu fundamentalist, are striking at the roots of communal harmony across South Asia.

China s senior leaders always closely monitor spontaneous public expressions of nationalist fervor, fearful that shifting winds might blow an unwelcome storm in their direction.

Religious fervor and a state of permanent conflict with Israel might be a badge of identity, but they will not pave the way to victory.

Barbarous thinking comes easily, and right wingers fuel the fervor, as when Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program They're the ones who are perverted.

The dream of peace, the nationalist fervor, and the purported religious redemption that animated Israel s political combatants for a half century are gone, replaced by a resigned pragmatism.

After two world wars, displays of national fervor became more or less taboo in Europe. Nationalism was blamed for almost destroying the old continent twice in the 20th century.

Much of the emotional force of Mao s revolution derived from the widespread sense of unequal treatment and humiliation by foreign powers, and this revolutionary fervor has never been properly interred.

With equal fervor, Iran s president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, defends his country s right to develop its nuclear capacity (though denying that his country seeks nuclear weapons) and challenges decades of Holocaust research.

In the past, the political fervor of university campuses has often been tempered when student bodies have been co opted by political elites. This time that seems to be different.

Barbarous thinking comes easily, and right wingers fuel the fervor, as when Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program They're the ones who are perverted. They're the ones who are dangerous.

But this wave of patriotic fervor seems sustained by even stronger forces perhaps by a frustrated emotional sense that America s motives are not properly understood in the rest of the world.

In countries with pent up demand for higher income and welfare, democratic fervor could lead to large budget deficits, excessive wage demands, and high inflation, ultimately resulting in severe economic crises.

So far, the crowds in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez have been neither violent, nor inflamed by religious fervor. Serious fighting only broke out after supporters of Mubarak began to attack the crowds.

Development after 1995 With the publication of critiques in 1995 and 1996 by some of the early BPR proponents, coupled with abuses and misuses of the concept by others, the reengineering fervor in the U.S. began to wane.

Clearly, whoever was responsible for the decision to take the British Marines prisoner was hoping to rekindle some of the fervor of the 1979 revolution, and use that to force the rest of the leadership into a confrontation with Britain and America.

Do we experience a mental block that makes us forget to check the facts when we see the words Pls RT? Are we mindlessly taking part in strange festival like fervor on social media, whether or not we actually agree with the opinions?

A Nobel laureate who teaches at Princeton University, Krugman is also a columnist for the New York Times, whose commentaries and blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, are read with an almost religious fervor by liberal (in the American sense) economists and journalists around the world.

MANAMA The fervor for change that inspired revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is now rocking Bahrain. But the uprising in Manama differs from the mass protests that turned out longtime rulers in North Africa. Indeed, sectarian fault lines, together with the security forces complete fealty to the monarchy, seriously diminish the likelihood of peaceful regime change.