"World AIDS Day -- Dec. 1 -- is a good opportunity to understand the situation of people who live with AIDS," began a commentary in Huadong News, a supplement to People's Daily that is distributed in six eastern provinces.
The Roman republic was for him the undisputed golden age; even before writing "The Prince," he had begun a commentary on Livy's "History of Rome," closely analyzing the Roman system of liberty and leaving no doubt that he was a republican at heart.
Who else could begin a commentary about a picture of a cottage cistern by noting, "We now have pumps so deep-reaching and powerful that we can draw down even the Oglala aquifer, the ocean of fresh water underneath the Great Plains, which once seemed inexhaustible"?
He also edited the poems of the medieval poet and philosopher Ibn Gabirol and began a popular modern commentary on the Mishna (the codification of Jewish oral laws).
Having found a rallying point to spread their faith, they began an era of commentaries, anthologies and biographies.
The Dadaist jokesters Das Racist began, effectively, as a commentary on hip-hop groups; at a Friday performance the group showed off its evolution into being just a rap group, and a good one.
Olympiodorus begins his commentary on Plato's Alcibiades with a grand gesture: "Aristotle began his own Theology with the words: 'All men by nature desire to know, and evidence for this is our love of perception'.
This key chapter, Job 28, is therefore where Habel begins his ecological commentary, using an approach he designates an eco-wisdom reading.
Roee began to leave as a commentary on my request.
In 1998, he began writing commentary for the Los Angeles Times and in 2005, became a contributor to the award-winning website, Truthdig.com on a wide range of topics including religion, race, politics, reproductive choice and popular culture.
