Gianni Riotta, Milan Regarding "How Democracy became Halal" (Views, Feb. 7): This commendable defense of democracy vis-à-vis the Middle East misses a few salient points.
There is a lot of Christian humanitarian work, both past and present, which is not linked to conversion, but this commendable expression of Christian values is made suspect by those who use works of charity as incentives to win converts.
This article has all of the commendable qualities that make for a useful and important critique of our current practice in a certain area; in this case, in the use of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) with children and adolescents.
We also take this opportunity to highlight some of the commendable achievements of the partnerships.
This is a direct result of the commendable global initiatives towards improving access to effective treatment of HIV/AIDS [ 1, 2].
Finally, one of the commendable things of the PARIMA project is that it has made the data available through a website (http://dyson.cornell.edu/special_programs/AFSNRM/Parima/index.htm) where anyone can download the data and codebook.
The ambition of this goal is commendable, particularly the universal access target that accompanies it.
One of the things I liked about last season was the additional focus on the day-to-day policing and, while the tight focus of this episode was commendable, I did miss that wider vision.
The work of this group is commendable, and has the potential to inform on-going policy debates about how to improve the research enterprise.
Berenson was "tempted to fancy," he wrote, that Bronzino's drawings were scarce (he counted only thirteen in all, two of them erroneously) because the artist had destroyed most of them out of commendable shame at their "dulness".
