Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teachers-in-training have been having a rough time of it lately. First, the facts. Three weeks ago it was announced that nearly two-thirds of teaching candidates had failed a newly required competency exam. In the aftermath of that announcement, politicians had a field day, rushing to judgment on the test-takers and their college teachers. House Speaker Tom Finneran (D-Mattapan) denounced the test-takers as "idiots" and proclaimed college diplomas worth nothing more than a "used Kleenex that's been lying in the gutter." One wonders what school of civility our politicians attended...
...year's civil-case decision against him. Simpson, who was cleared by a criminal jury, lost the wrongful death suit in civil court for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson, says the Journal, will attempt to have the $33 million judgment against him overturned, or at least reduced. His lawyers filed their papers Thursday, saying the jury acted out of malice and prejudice. Fred Goldman, father of Ron, said he will fight any such move...
...believe that is the exact personality type required to run a city as rude as New York. Besides, the mayor does not call reporters and other enemies "jerky," "stupid," "silly" and "not really that intelligent" unless they actually are. He has correctly stated, "I pride myself in displaying good judgment about people...
...AGOSTINO CARDINAL CASAROLI, 83, a tailor's son who became the Vatican's unflappable envoy to Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s; in Rome. Upon his election as Pope, John Paul II quickly named the omnicompetent prelate the Vatican's chief diplomat, a post he filled with skill and judgment from 1979 to 1990. In 1989, in perhaps his most dramatic moment, Casaroli helped broker the meeting between the Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev...
...early to pass judgment on Stewart's efforts to legitimize Harvard's student government. The pragmatic initiatives she has shepherded have pleased many supporters, though her approach remains suspect to wary liberals. The question which remains is whether her style will help lead the council to a public mandate at last...