DCYF finances many admirable programs, like after-school care and tutoring for aspiring writers at Dave Eggers's 826 Valencia organization.
These admirable programs, however, are modest in scale, and in the current fiscal climate, their financing is far from secure.
Admirable education programs have ensured that most women are aware of the harmful effects that smoking can have on their bodies -- but education is not enough.
There is, however, a simple truth behind the accusation: Despite admirable pilot programs, expanding coverage in a system still heavily reliant on fee-for-service medicine, will create strong cost pressures that will make the political case for strong cost containment measures.
Thanks to the orchestra's admirable First Music program, every New York Symphony concert includes the premiere of a work by a young composer.
"The one thing that is admirable about their program is they don't have fits and starts," said Joseph R. Fragola, a space safety expert who has visited the space facilities in China.
But despite the seemingly admirable goal, the program is now under siege, the focus of a fierce battle between powerful forces — the pharmaceutical industry, which wants to rein in the discounts, and the hospitals, which say they might have to cut services without them.
The ensemble, conducted by Ted Hearne, played the entire program with admirable energy and precision.
Is it perverse to say that the overall most admirable item on the program was also the most obviously flawed?
