Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extension, which qualities should be rewarded in an ideal meritocratic society. But in emphasizing the importance of creativity, determination and other non-academic personal qualities, he stumbles dangerously close to supporting a system in which advancement is determined primarily by subjective criteria. The danger is, of course, that the judgment of "character" could easily spawn more discrimination and favoritism than the judgment of "intelligence...
...second is from Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington: "I absolutely favored the retention of ROTC, and I still think it should be here.... [It] is highly desirable for the military. One of the reasons for My Lai, for instance, was that there weren't enough people there with judgment and values...
...home brought their arrogance into focus. Seton implies that Harvard students can do a better job with the military than those academy boys and those God-forsaken southerners. Huntington believes the My Lai massacre in Vietnam could have been avoided had a Harvard man been in command--that judgment and values are by-products of elite conditioning in academic Utopia...
...These, at least, are sincere men (with judgment pending on the apolitical Trump), and they all fill what for Ventura is a necessary bill for the party: They're a breed apart. Buchanan, for all his posturing, is a political animal, a politician's politician. He happens to be a grassroots rabble-rouser because it keeps him on TV and sells books, and because no one else much wants to be one. He has the give-'em-hell attitude to excite the Reform party's lunatic fringe, and comes with his own built-in constituency ? a rabid band of anti...
...first lawsuit in a foreign court in recent memory, Harvard last month won a judgment in a Canadian court against a Quebec company illegally using the Harvard name...