Word: judgmentalism
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Some spam victims aren't waiting for the state laws to kick in. They have become spam vigilantes. Marketer Dan Balsam in Santa Monica, Calif., has waged a one-man legal campaign against spammers who refuse to remove him from their mailing lists. No judgment has netted him more than $1,000, but Balsam isn't in it for the money. "I'm trying to raise the cost of spammers doing business," he says. Los Angeles software engineer Bill Silverstein has taken an even more creative approach. When he wanted to sue a company that refused to stop sending...
...last week. Senior British intelligence officials have backed him up, so the more probable explanation of why no weapons have materialized is either an overestimation before the war or an incompetent search since. Better for Blair to be a fool than a knave, but not by much; if his judgment was faulty on his casus belli, his leadership will be suspect. Despite the paltry results so far of the search for Iraq's banned weapons, he continues to insist that his prewar WMD claims will be vindicated. "You are just going to have to have a little bit of patience...
Refuting or refining Gilligan’s theory has become a cottage industry within the field of developmental psychology. Often, she’s now grouped with Kohlberg, as someone whose theory on moral judgment is interesting and important and yet not authoritative...
Most students, unsure of how to react, did nothing. Traditional Harvard liberalism, activism and reasoned judgment each made their unceremonious retreats. All of this was invisible to John Harvard, of course, as he looked out on the small world of the Yard. Impervious to war and unrest alike, he sat silent and watchful, stilled by the American flag fluttering softly above his head...
...role of inspiration. Nobel Laureate Dudley Hershbach made us write poems in his Chem 10 class because he believes that the desire to learn about the root causes of phenomena in the world arises from our appreciation of the world’s beauty. Aesthetic sensibility even suffuses the judgment of merit of scientific theories; the highest compliment a scientist can bestow is to call a theory “beautiful” or to call a set of experiments “elegant.” Scientists attempt to make interesting “stories” from their...