Under what logic, television commentators and newspaper editorialists demanded, could the courts turn free a man who, under the Japanese legal system, would almost certainly be facing years in prison?

To the dismay of health officials and newspaper editorialists, this proved not to be the case.

"Mankind has been promoted to high school," an American newspaper editorialist had written.

Immigration experts, liberal Orthodox, secular immigrants and mainstream newspaper editorialists are proposing that the supposedly sacrosanct law be re-evaluated.

The war in Iraq continued to dominate the attention of newspaper editorialists around the world, as the following excerpts of commentary from the past week demonstrates.

The other day he even referred to welfare recipients as "our fellow Californians," an embrace that political analysts, newspaper editorialists and Wilson fans and critics are still dissecting.

When politicians and newspaper editorialists start throwing around these figures, it's easy to scare voters and kill off even the most reasonable, budget-conscious proposals.

Colombia held its collective breath in the days leading to Betty's triumph, with newspaper editorialists and politicians pleading with the telenovela's writer to keep Betty honest.

Thus some newspaper editorialists saw Mr. Kirkland's invitation to the teamsters to come home as proof that time had proved Mr. Hoffa right.

To a considerable degree, that reflects the views of newspaper editorialists and of the general public, as reflected in recent opinion surveys.