Mr. Dallek, who was compensated for consulting on "The Kennedys" and had an option to be paid for publicly endorsing it, chose not to exercise that option.
In comments published Friday on the Web site of the semiofficial news agency ISNA, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, who favors a political system in which elections merely endorse "divinely chosen" clerical leaders, congratulated the people of Tunisia and Egypt, stating that they had acted "based on the principles" of Iran's Islamic revolution.
Also on Saturday, five former United States ambassadors to the Vatican endorsed Mr. Romney, choosing a Mormon over two Roman Catholic rivals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Many skaters and graffiti artists want to do their thing somewhere that isn't officially endorsed, somewhere they chose and built themselves.
The possibility of AI autocracy in the People's Republic is real, and it is one that Western tech companies are tacitly endorsing when they choose to forfeit digital rights in favor of market access.
The announcement, at the opening of Mr. Blair's two-day visit at Camp David, was notable because both Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had indicated reservations about the European force, which would make use of NATO equipment and could be dispatched on missions that the United States did not endorse, or chose not to join.
It implies voting for anyone is an act of evil in that the vote endorses and chooses evil.
They not only endorsed "L'Avventura" but also chose it as the second-greatest film ever made, behind "Citizen Kane".
Instead, we need to forge a domestic consensus about anything we might build, and we must persuade our allies in Europe and East Asia to endorse whatever path we choose.
I do find it puzzling that you would choose to endorse Lord Monckton in some way, given you once wrote to the Chief Scientist complaining about the state and tone of the climate change debate.
