And after the President's speech, Mr. Rangel said, he received a phone call from Ambassador Walter F. Mondale in Tokyo, asking him if the President's impassioned comments did not signal that he deserved support on Nafta.

Two senators that I had never encountered in person before, Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota and Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, made very good and impassioned comments about the enduring value of professional local-beat reporting on crime, public corruption, police departments, and the like.

Fans left impassioned, long and detailed comments on the MTV News site about their discontent at the group's breakup.

Comical or innovative, trend-setting or eyebrow-raising, here are some of furnishings that provoked the most impassioned comment over the morning caffe lattes and the midnight grappas.

But such comments - combative, impolitic, impassioned - are characteristic of a man who took on unpopular battles, inside and outside the Bush administration, as he tried to restore the standing of the United States Agency for International Development, whose clout had declined steadily.

Ms. Lada (who plays Tony Soprano's mistress on "The Sopranos") looks the part, but her accent and enunciation make her impassioned comments on art history and the trials and tribulations of her country almost incomprehensible.

Fans left impassioned, long and detailed comments on the MTV News site about their discontent regarding the decision to remove the two singers, and relayed that the remaining members were using the breakup to "score" publicity.

There was Vice President Bush's impassioned comment last week that Sept. 7 marked Pearl Harbor Day, the anniversery of the Japanese attack that actually occurred on Dec. 7.

The case against Mr. Habre, 57, who has lived in exile in Dakar since being toppled from power in 1990, has also stirred some impassioned comments among African intellectuals.