Are we to condemn ElBaradei for this apparent hypocrisy, or commend him for his altruism in becoming involved in a process for the greater good of the country that he would otherwise reject?
And I commend him now, as I have in the past, for the fine work he did with his late father, former Sen. Ted Kennedy, in passing the mental-health parity law a few years ago.
"I just had to commend him and assure him that in case he tested positive, he can now be treated early and live longer," she says.
Indeed, the Jewish leaders in his town commend him to Jesus on the basis of his good works.
In 1921, because of his work in Warsaw, Ratti was named archbishop of Milan, and just seven months after that, he was elected pope, becoming Pius XI, the very pope who met with the French priest Ernest Jouin and commended him for his work in combating "our mortal enemy," namely the Jews.
And in his seaside villa on the Asian side of Istanbul, he treasures a framed copy of a signed letter in 2003 from the Ministry of Health in Israel commending him for his life-saving aid to "hundreds of Israeli patients who are suffering from kidney diseases and awaiting transplants".
commended him for entertaining the troops in World War II as a soloist and as a member of the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras.
In Washington this afternoon, Mr. Schundler received the congratulations and encouragement of the president, who commended him as "a great reformer in Jersey City," where Mr. Schundler ended his second term as mayor on Saturday.
Of the pioneering gay novel City of Night whose jacket coyly promised "a novel about love and the ceaseless, groping search for love"—Chester sneered in the New York Review of Books, "Better cut out all that 'ceaseless groping,' Jack, and get down to work!" No less than Edmund Wilson was moved to write Chester a fan letter, commending him as "the only critic in New York who knows his mind".
The victorious Minamoto leader Yoshiie became the nation's most celebrated warrior, and many local figures made voluntary vows of allegiance to him and commended lands to him in return for his protection.
