Word: judgmentalism
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...Port Authority, which built and operates the New York-area port facilities, airports, tunnels and bridges, is famous for its engineering achievements. Its judgment in architecture is another matter. It was former P.A. chief Austin Tobin who chose Minoru Yamasaki to design the Twin Towers. Just a few years later, the city of St. Louis, Mo., blew up Yamasaki's much despised Pruitt-Igoe housing project. A large crowd there turned out to cheer...
...Will is a great cop but has planted evidence to make his case against a child molester. Hap knows what happened and is going to talk to internal affairs, thus destroying a legendary career. So Will has a motive to kill him. And--this is the best part--his judgment is clouded by sleep deprivation. It is summertime in this land of the midnight sun, and the perpetual daylight induces in him the malady of the title...
...Judgment Who could resist that face...
...need protection against a counterattack. Ditto missile defense: invulnerability to nuclear strikes makes it so much easier to, say, defend Taiwan against a Chinese assault. Or to go after Saddam and his chemical-tipped Scuds. Why does Bush dislike the ICC? Obviously, he does not want international bodies passing judgment on U.S. nationals involved in military actions not sanctified by U.N. resolutions. For the others, the object is precisely the opposite. They want to entangle Gulliver in myriad ropes, to keep him safely tied down. But great powers do not like international institutions they cannot dominate, where...
...like reviewing a movie on the basis of the trailer - you can often get a good sense of what will absolutely stink and you can guess at what's interesting enough to deserve a look later. Otherwise, any critical opinions here are strictly half-baked, knee-jerk judgments that I reserve to right to reverse entirely once I've actually watched the shows. Having said that, let the half-baked, knee-jerk judgment begin...