Word: judgmentalism
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...Edwards' earliest court victories--the one in which he did the impersonation of an unborn child--has become one of his most controversial in medical circles. In 1985 he won a judgment of $6.5 million (later reduced to $4.2 million) for a child born with brain damage and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Edwards maintained that the doctor who delivered her should have more closely attended the fetal-heart monitor, which would have indicated the infant's distress, and should have opted for a caesarean delivery, which might have prevented the damage...
...their eyes on Edwards during his entire speech," recalls Judge Robert Farmer, now retired, who presided over the case. "When they came back with a verdict, eight or nine of them were crying." But the jurors composed themselves sufficiently to award $25 million to the Lakey family--the largest judgment in North Carolina history...
...proposed action against France and Germany; last week, the European Court of Justice ruled that they should not have done so. Smaller E.U. countries may cheer - "Situations in which rules are broken should carry precise consequences," says Krzysztof Rybinski, vice president of the National Bank of Poland - but the judgment seems stunningly irrelevant. No one thinks France and Germany will be punished, or get their deficits under the pact's ceiling, anytime soon. And the euro doesn't seem to be hurting from the violations - which raises the question of how crucial the stability and growth pact...
...judgment that no one can make definitively yet. I would not have done it until after Hans Blix finished his job. Having said that, over 600 of our people have died since the conflict was over. We've got a big stake now in making it work. I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack. I think if you have a pluralistic, secure, stable Iraq, the people of Iraq will be better off, and it might help the process of internal reform in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere...
Bremer says he will ultimately be judged not for the violence and mismanagement that marred his administration but for the political arrangements set in place during his 13 months in Baghdad. But he can't escape questions about his political judgment--in particular the decision in late March to close the newspaper affiliated with the radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. At the time, Bremer said the paper was inciting anti-Americanism and endangering U.S. troops. Adnan Pachachi, then a Governing Council member, says that no one was consulted when Bremer decided to shut the paper down. In response...