"The path he took was very admirable," says Mr. Turturro.
If the motive is to memorialize this young woman and spread awareness about the Jewish resistance, which is not well known among the public, it is very admirable.
I think that is very admirable because it means we are a party of values and policies, rather than vested interests, but it's not electorally always the smartest way to conduct business.
So I think there are a lot of ways we look at the people that are in this job, and take an example from the very way they live their lives, and certainly, she's very admirable.
"I thought that what Stephen did was very admirable". Mary Matalin, a Republican who has served the Bush White House as assistant to the president and counselor to the vice president, had a different take.
'Bush is a very complicated character,' he explains, 'because there's a lot about him that's very admirable, but he's so profoundly wrong.' Klein first met him almost a decade ago, when he was covering faith-based social initiatives for the New Yorker.
"Over all it's very admirable in concept for the town to spend so much money acquiring open space, but I think it's also irresponsible to acquire land that you cannot take care of, and I think it's clear that the town can't take care of what it already has acquired," she said.
I sent an e-mail message to the class apologizing for the "wrong-headed" example, adding, "It is very admirable what students at Tsinghua are doing to support the earthquake victims and I didn't mean to imply that we must choose between two tragedies".
