If a point represents a helpful step along the road to Crystal Palace's escape from relegation a surfeit of commendable effort was never going to be enough to offer Gus Poyet's 19th-placed side the victory they desperately needed ahead of a daunting run in.
I do think they are adding a new, more authentic dimension to what less adventurous travelers will experience even if they never leave the property, and that's commendable too.
Chambers, 33, also pocketed 11 points with a commendable time of 10.07 but he never looked like overhauling 21-year-old Lemaitre, who improved his own French record by one-hundreth of a second.
Wanting fair trade and an end to hunger and disease is all very well, but the commendable cause of annoying the French should never be underestimated.
Tempos were never breathless, and the collaboration between singer and orchestra was usually commendable.
Admitting you're wrong is never easy; doing so in front of millions of people is quite commendable.
In 1990 the South African government, showing commendable good sense, flung me out of the country and told me never to return (they had got a little shirty with a few things I'd written about their political system).
It's commendable that the FBI has owned up to the error, but it should never have been made in the first place.
Focusing on the need for geriatric medicine is commendable (front page, Sept. 24), but the care needs of older people will never be met by relying solely on doctors.
It is both good and commendable that DynCorp has taken steps since those days to ensure such things never happen again.
