Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Someone can come to us at the time of the exam, not before. They're seen by a clinician who uses his or her judgment as to how serious the symptoms are that would affect the student's taking the exam...
...before any decision is made. Though Kevorkian is adamant about the precautions he takes, his enthusiasm for testing new techniques and promoting his cause has naturally raised concerns about his neutrality in counseling potential clients. A pathologist by training, he is not in the best position to make a judgment about patients when they are still alive...
Images are an imperfect route to knowledge. They crowd the senses; they can simplify; they can yell. But they make an impact that sets in motion the deeper operations of judgment. The secular faith of the 20th century insists that history is progress, that time's arrow points the human race towards an ever brighter future. Then the world dissolves again into tribal bloodletting, and we wonder whether history is cyclical, always orbiting through the same thickets of hope and misfortune. When we look at news photographs, we bring to them the questions that history forces upon us: What should...
Edge's role goes well beyond providing security. "He's explained to my son how to be himself, how not to be a follower, to use his own judgment," says a grateful Sylvia Chavis, a single parent and mother of sixth-grader Terrence Cooper. Each of Edge's warnings is tinged with the memory of an empty locker or graveside service. His job too is not without risks. Last year three men opened the door of the school and leveled automatic weapons at him. "Hey, you," they hollered, paused for a moment, then left. Says Edge: "I never know...
...fact that the victimization of the fathers may lead to a certain moral blind spot in the sons. So, in judging the present emotion-filled crisis of the refugee presence in Germany, it seems to me all the more necessary to strive for an evenhandedness and objectivity in our judgment, lest yet another tragic lesson of history be re-enacted in our time -- namely, that all ethnic and religious hatreds and tragedies perpetuate and reinforce one another...