11.   Mrs. Harriman said that he had been born again about two years ago and was a fervent believer.

12.   Raised in black Baptist churches in Tampa, Fla., and Washington, D.C., Saxon became an increasingly fervent believer.

13.   Still, Bush has his evangelical friends and a quiet, underground campaign to make certain Christian groups know that he is a fervent believer.

14.   The blessing of ironic detachment is that it separates you from the fervent believers who populate politics.

15.   Hagedorn, who has not been linked to the fire, saw the blaze as divine intervention and became a fervent believer.

16.   The rumpled, chain-smoking Brodsky was a fervent believer in the redemptive powers of poetry.