Word: judgmentalism
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...that the men recruited by the two Moroccan and three Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled that their actions hadn't "exceeded guerrilla activity" - even though she conceded that the men had signed up militants to go to Iraq. They were convicted of immigration offenses. The terror judgment sparked "rage and disbelief" from Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, who termed the verdict "a shameless distortion of reality before the eyes of the entire world." Prosecutors plan to appeal the decision. Since existing rules don't always allow officials to prevent local radicals from getting to Iraq - or causing...
...longer running for anything other than history's judgment, George W. Bush delivered his second Inaugural Address under a cold sky to a sea of hats--fur and knit and 10 gallon. Laura looked like a bride in white. The only warmth came from the words, a 21-min. oration crackling with imagery burning almost out of control: the "day of fire" that changed everything three years ago, the "untamed fire of freedom" that "will reach the darkest corners of our world." The message embedded inside the address was, in the words of a White House adviser, "Don't back...
...credibility by faulty intelligence or cleanse the world of the horrifying images from Abu Ghraib. Bush’s unilateral war on Iraq has been marked by a series of disastrous blunders, and his administration’s failure to plan for reconstruction has been an astounding error of judgment...
...remarks. After all, under the hypothesis that innate gender differences do exist in the scientific aptitude, it is quite possible that those women, who represent the nation’s leading scholars, were exceptions to the trend of female inferiority, and hence this belief does not directly provide a judgment on their individual merits. The same may be alleged of the Harvard female science concentrators that President Summers represents: that they are outliers, exceptions to this trend. But the fact of the matter is, the women Summers should praise will nonetheless have to deal with the repercussions of the sentiment...
Unlike the Washington bigwigs he has made a career of talking about, Armstrong Williams fesses up when caught red- handed. "My judgment was not the best," the conservative pundit admitted after USA Today uncovered a Department of Education contract paying him $240,000 to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind law on his talk show, The Right Side, and in other TV appearances. The contract required him to "regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts" and to encourage other journalists to talk...