Word: judgmentalism
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...that judgment is correct, it will deepen the greatest crisis in international institutions since the end of the cold war. The U.S. has promised that Iraq will be disarmed with or without U.N. backing. If the Administration cannot secure a new resolution and goes to war anyway, the U.N.'s relevance to great international issues will be severely undermined. Already, the Iraq crisis has split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union into supporters and opponents of the U.S. position. And this is just the dry, bare-bones recitation of diplomatic facts. It does not begin to engage...
...experiences may also justify the prophetic authority he claims at the book’s end. The dust-jacket has a red, white and blue color scheme, and after a history of literature’s decline and fall in America—culminating in the judgment that with Camp’s advent, “literature had then failed”—he writes, “Nothing less than a fresh vision of the ongoing and conceivably climactic war between God and the Devil can slake our moral thirst now that we have passed through...
...eyes; Kennedy standing alone, in shadows, during the Cuban missile crisis. This is a moment far more ambiguous than any of those; intellectual anguish is permissible. War may be the correct choice, but it can't be an easy one. The world might have more confidence in the judgment of this President if he weren't always bathed in the blinding glare of his own certainty...
...dreaming, persevering and being proud? American Idol didn't say. It didn't nudge us to laugh at her or prod us to cry for her. In about two minutes, it just told a quintessentially American story of ambition and desperation and shrinking options, and it left the judgment to us. That's unsettling. That's heartbreaking. And the reality is, that's great TV. --Reported by Amy Lennard Goehner/New York, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Adam Pitluk/Dallas
...Sputnik investment business, while NTV will now be run by Nikolai Senkevich, 34, a physician until now best known in the media for a television show on an obscure regional channel and his article about hemorrhoids in a medical journal. "He is totally incompetent," is Parfyonov's judgment. Parfyonov, who is still immensely popular, is being courted by other TV stations, "but he'll have to learn to watch his step - and his mouth," says one Moscow newspaper editor. In September 2001, when Namedni ruled the airwaves, the newspaper Izvestia asked Parfyonov: "What if the views of those...