It probably isn't deemed newsworthy enough for the cut and thrust of a general election campaign; too supply-side, not enough "best for my child", middle-class hand-wringing about Latin and Oxbridge for the sort of education human interest many commentators (wrongly) believe motivates the public.
Bennis like other experts, commentators, human rights organizations, activists and many of the American people does not advocate taking no action.
Last fall, Global Exchange joined the calls of many other human rights organizations, commentators, newspaper editors and others around the world asking Mexico's authorities to break the habit of impunity and to conduct an honest and thorough investigation of the disappearances of the 43 students.
Many commentators and human rights groups have denounced what they say is a continuing assault against free speech and independent journalism in Sri Lanka.
And absences, like that of humankind from the Origin, can be filled with many meanings: perhaps Darwin was not as preoccupied with the human as are his commentators.
As soon as the near completion of the human genome was announced, commentators played up the payoff of finding genes for all sorts of diseases.
Of course, that does not turn them into real human beings, and some commentators insist that this implies that firms cannot have moral obligations.
World figures, including Pope Benedict XVI and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, human rights groups and commentators urged the execution to be halted -- all to no avail.
Though she was a romantic novelist at heart, Austen's appeal is far wider: as a meticulous observer of human nature, as a social commentator and, most importantly, as a brilliant and entertaining writer.
Commentators and human-rights groups have rightly noted that a speech is only a speech.
