At least one commentator referred to therapists' response as "trauma tourism".
"Mubarak's people threw rocks," said Fahmy Howeidy, a well-known columnist and social commentator, referring to thugs who threw stones at demonstrators.
Today, when told that Mike Ditka, the coach turned television commentator, referred to the Giants as soft over the weekend, Fassel erupted again.
All of this brings us to what one commentator referred to as "the black irony" of the fire that has destroyed most of Fort McMurray.
"I think it was worth the wait," said Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a leading political commentator, referring to a two-week delay during which some commentators questioned Mrs. Megawati's decisiveness.
"The established parties collapsed — they had too much pressure from Berlin and Brussels and the I.M.F.," said Nikos Xydakis, an editor at the Kathimerini daily and a political commentator, referring to Greece's foreign lenders.
"It is not like Western leaders boycotting the Russian victory parade," says one Riyadh-based commentator, referring to the celebrations in Moscow on May 10th to mark the end of the second world war.
Jeff Greenberg, a CNN commentator, referred to Mr. Bush tonight as having entered office as a Prince Hal, suggesting that like Shakespeare's Henry V, the president had shaken off his callow concerns to take command.
Correction: March 21, 2006, Tuesday Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about a man who was convicted of stalking Monica Crowley, the radio and television commentator, referred incorrectly to her past service as foreign policy assistant to Richard M. Nixon.
Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about a man who was convicted of stalking Monica Crowley, the radio and television commentator, referred incorrectly to her past service as foreign policy assistant to Richard M. Nixon.
