Word: judgmentalism
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...often" of Iraqis who were not valuable targets but bystanders caught in random roundups. Add to that the facts that the Army's intelligence units were poorly trained and badly managed, and the military police units assigned to Abu Ghraib were filled with reservists who showed poor judgment--and some of whom are now the subject of courts-martial. (See above...
...billion video-game business, says Blagojevich, is an industry that "targets its products at kids. Just as a child buying cigarettes is inappropriate, just as a child buying alcohol is inappropriate, just as a child buying pornography is inappropriate, the same kind of thinking, in my judgment, applies to violent video games and graphic sexual video games." If passed and upheld in court, the laws would be the first statewide measures to impose fines and jail time for selling M-rated games to minors...
...publishing essays in influential little journals like Partisan Review, she emerged as the intellectual plenipotentiary of American cultural life, militantly contemporary, insatiable in her appetite for culture and truly, madly, deeply conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin, the novelist Witold Gombrowicz, the critic Roland Barthes, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard...
...statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call the hijackers cowardly, a judgment issued with her typical brisk authority and with the inevitable result that it sounded callous, however true it may have been. At the height of the Serbian campaign against Sarajevo she traveled to that city more than a dozen times to help focus world attention on Serbian atrocities. To lift morale...
...Gladwell throws so many anecdotes at us in Blink, from so many directions, that sometimes it's a little hard to be certain what they prove. Sure, producer Brian Grazer knew right away that Tom Hanks had star potential when he auditioned for Splash. But is that kind of judgment really analogous to the split-second decision-making process of a Marine in a war game? Or of the New York City policemen who decided, incorrectly, that immigrant Amadou Diallo was holding a gun and not his wallet...