Word: judgment
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...Admissions and the President should have been informed. Why? Because, they are the relevant senior guardians of the welfare of this community: who is accepted for admission and under what circumstances is their responsibility. Further, they are individuals in positions which have always called for great discretion and judgment. Would anyone argue otherwise? Does anyone doubt that during their long years of service they have privately adjudicated issues of the greatest delicacy...
...seems to me that any 19-year-old who has overcome the odds Grant faced has more "moral character" and "maturity" than any of the deans who passed judgment on her application. Grant will always suffer from her mother's murder. That should be Grant's private suffering, not Harvard's moral cause...
Taking a stand now against the death penalty would be an invaluable expression of humility, and of strength--an admission of the limits of our system and our judgment at a moment of easy answers and quick executions in the name of public opinion...
...Thou shall not"s of the Ten Commandments, nor are the commandments interpreted as "God's words." Their meanings and implications are poked and prodded at with the skillfulness of a surgeon, uncovering realities that run deeper than simple do-or-don't laws and laying them bare for judgment...
Whether the U.S. is in the perfect position to pass judgment on human rights records is an interesting question. Now please don't misunderstand me. I am not saying that if the United States were to appear on its own annual report of human rights, its record would also fall far short of internationally accepted norms. Not quite...