Word: judgmentalism
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...JUDGMENT...
...announcing Moussaoui's indictment two years ago, the Attorney General said, "Al-Qaeda will now meet the justice it abhors and the judgment it fears." Now the government may get a judgment it fears, and justice may be served in quite unexpected ways. --With reporting by Elaine Shannon/Washington and Bruce Crumley/Paris
...style, and an essay students must write on an assigned topic (see chart for an example). Historically, the SAT has had only multiple-choice items. As Lemann writes of the early rationale for the SAT, "Tests that require a student to write essays ... are highly susceptible to the subjective judgment of the grader and to the mood of the taker on the day of the test, so they have low reliability...
...WISH YOU HAD BEEN TOUGHER WITH THE BIG INVESTMENT BANKS IN LAST YEAR'S SETTLEMENT OVER MISLEADING STOCK RESEARCH? THEY PAID SOME FINES, BUT NO ONE WAS INDICTED. I feel that we made the right judgment calls at the time. Whether the investment banks have learned their lesson and are playing by the new rules remains to be seen. If not, I'll probably reach the conclusion that we should have indeed indicted some people...
Along with transparency, fairness in the decisions of the Ad Board is paramount—the move to a single fact finder for cases of sexual assault last year was an improvement in this realm. But judgment by a defendant’s peers may not produce more fairness in the Ad Board process. Adding token students to a board of dozens of administrators might bring to a quaint advisory capacity that helps the Ad Board nail down the reality of student life at Harvard, but their position as peers of defendants—rife with the potential of conflicts...