Word: judgmentalism
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...Paris police chief for President Charles de Gaulle, and was later elected to parliament as a Gaullist candidate. He was budget minister from 1978 to 1981, when wartime deportation and intelligence documents on Jews bearing his signature became public. Indicted for crimes against humanity in 1983, Papon avoided judgment until 1998 - but even then was convicted for illegal arrests and detention in connection with the Holocaust, rather than murder. Papon claimed his innocence with an open disdain for accusers and judges alike. Free on appeal in 1999, he bolted - but ventured no farther than Switzerland, where he was arrested...
...Reiter (The Blue Rider). As the journal's name hints, this artist group was concerned with the romantic and mystical. The collection's seven paintings by Kandinsky show him unshackling color from objects as he invents abstract art. But before quite doing so, he painted Angel of the Last Judgment (1911), in which we can make out a glorious, multicolored archangel lifting the last trumpet. Kandinsky is perhaps suggesting the confusion, delight and anxiety we might feel on encountering such a being. Alexei von Jawlensky, another Blaue Reiter, wrote of the years 1905-06, "I understood how to translate nature...
...Anderson, 55, chief inspector for commercial operations at the Ambassador Bridge, is watching from about 15 ft. away. "Inspectors typically have 25 to 30 seconds to make a judgment about whether a driver is telling the truth," he says. "A lot of what we do is just common sense. It's looking for things that are out of place, a story that doesn't make sense, or if he's evasive or won't look you right in the eye." Since Sept. 11, the Customs Service has been on a Level One alert--the most rigorous inspection regimen...
...mailings; from his research job at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge. Hatfill, who has not been indicted or even named as a suspect, says his "life has been completely and utterly destroyed by Ashcroft and the FBI." The university insists that in sacking him it is "making no judgment as to Dr. Hatfill's guilt or innocence regarding the FBI investigation...
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG: Studies show overactivity and a 30% loss in gray matter in this region, causing people to lose judgment about how certain behaviors, such as overspending or being sexually indiscriminate, will affect their lives...