Word: judgment
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This argument is flawed for two reasons: first, because it mistakenly assumes that people's experiences as members of particular races and genders do not influence their judgment; and, second, because it improperly ranks the rights of jurors over those of defendants...
...sleazy a call for murder as one is likely to find in a publication that has pretensions to respectability. (And I wonder: after Zhirinovsky, whose is the next name on Frank's `hit list'--and the next?) Indeed, I am even more dismayed at the judgment of the editors of The Crimson. Have you been so benumbed by the cant of the Free Speech Absolutists that you think it's perfectly proper to allow the Opinion page to be used to advertise for someone's murder? Who is the next person you will allow to be marked on your pages...
...judgment, the Department of Defense'spolicy of discriminating against homosexuals inROTC, at a time when all other forms of invidiousdiscrimination have been prohibited, puts both ofthese goals at risk...
...Eugene Roberts, who at 61 is four years Lelyveld's senior and who left the Times in 1972 to transform the soggy Philadelphia Inquirer into one of the nation's foremost dailies. Lelyveld calls the low-key, deceptively shrewd Roberts "one of the great strategic thinkers in journalism," a judgment shared by most people in the industry. Several have tried to lure Roberts back into editing since he retired in 1990, after spurring his Inquirer staff to win 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years on topics ranging from the intricacies of the federal budget to attacks on the public...
...issue here is not whether or not Michael Fay should be punished, or whether or not he should be exempt from the judgment of the Singapore court because he is an American citizen. The issue is why we as a nation are so willing to accept a means of punishment that falls under the definition of torture. Michael Fay may rightly deserve four months in prison. He may rightly deserve to pay a $2,000 fine. Yet it's not being "soft" to protest against his caning, a punishment that allows the government of Singapore to continue torturing its citizens...