Word: judgment
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Further, censorship is inevitably a slippery slope; it is entirely dependent on an individual or group's determination of what has value, a judgment that may not reflect the speakers, much less that of society. But in Frank's United States, the government will apparently have free rein to determine what is "legitimate...
...this week, Quayle takes aim at two potential rivals -- former Secretary of State James Baker and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp -- as well as the high command of the 1992 Bush re- election campaign. Reports of the coming broadsides left veteran Republican operatives wondering once more about Quayle's judgment. "It's not reintroduction," said a top Republican consultant. "It's self-immolation. He's poured gas on himself and touched...
...harsh judgment on Hanlon is only the latest chapter in a plague of lawsuits that is bedeviling the Roman Catholic Church in America. The most famous case of sexual-abuse charges brought against a Catholic priest was dropped when the accuser of Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin admitted on Feb. 28 that he was not positive that the abuse, which he had remembered under hypnosis, had actually occurred. However, the church still faces hundreds of lawsuits around the country. Roderick MacLeish Jr., a Boston lawyer involved in civil actions against alleged child abusers, claims that of the 400 active cases...
...right of course, as hard-eyed and tough about himself as he had been about other people all his life. It was the same sort of ruthless judgment he had applied to opponents as well as friends, to opportunities and risks, to domestic politics and international diplomacy...
...arguing that the ban on gays is not unfortunate, or that it is justified. But I would sooner trust the judgment of a Colin Powell than that of a group of armchair commentators...