The Scotland Under-21 coach praised the work being done under the circumstances by Rangers manager Ally McCoist.
Nicolle Wallace, a White House communications director under George W. Bush, praised Ms. Cutter as "the warrior princess of this election cycle".
Joseph Rosa, the curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago, where a $285 million expansion by Renzo Piano is under way, praised the economy of the smaller projects.
Robert A. Ungar, a counsel to the union representing emergency medical technicians and paramedics, who were part of the separate Emergency Medical Service until it merged with the Fire Department under Mayor Giuliani, praised Mr. Scoppetta but added that he would be confronting issues of morale, staffing and recruitment.
The Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, the co-chairman of East Brooklyn Congregations, a consortium of 40 groups that has built 2,700 houses in East New York and Brownsville under the widely praised Nehemiah program, said the damage done under the Clinton administration was now being compounded by the Bush administration.
Norwich City under-18s boss Neil Adams praised his side's resilience after the club reached the FA Youth Cup final for the first time in 30 years.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said that the matter was under investigation, and praised the Administration for Children's Services for its work in general.
A panel of experts under the National Research Council praised what the corps was able to do in the brief time it had, but criticized corps language that seemed defensive.
Now, it is their job to make sure that the local audience wants to come: even in its most recent, Grammy-nominated form, under the widely praised Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra was hardly selling out Orchestra Hall.
Two of them, Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and John R. Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, praised the group as having provided the United States with valuable intelligence about Iran.
