Word: judgmentalism
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...negotiated with the coaching of Welch and a legal team he recruited. All this maneuvering has probably left him little time for leisure reading. When Welch does find a minute, he may be interested in catching up on the Wetlaufer canon. In 1992 she wrote a novel titled Judgment Call, based on her experiences as a reporter at the Miami Herald. In the book, a young reporter has an affair with a teenage hit man at the behest of a drug lord. Of even more interest may be a 1999 article Wetlaufer wrote for HBR containing a hypothetical case study...
...your entertainment dreams are made: by bartering and bribery. These are the folks to whom you entrust the anointing of the famous: slimes. But slimes with style - for the watchworks of malevolence have their own precision, their own seductive movement. "Sweet Smell" is as much in love as in judgment of the moral squalor it depicts; it whispers invective in Sidney's ear as it pours poison in yours...
...time scrutinizing people everyone knows are no threat. Jesse Jackson once famously lamented how he felt when he would "walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery--then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Jackson is no racist. He was not passing judgment on his own ethnicity. He was simply reacting to probabilities. He would rather not. We all would rather not make any calculations based on ethnicity, religion, gender or physical characteristics--except that on airplanes our lives are at stake...
...some fear that the new agency's tough policies could cripple a system that handles 670 million passengers a year. "The TSA has to allow security people to use their judgment," says David Plavin, who represents airport managers and owners. The system is no good, Plavin says, if it's "so rigid that people don't even want to negotiate...
Against my better judgment, I went to listen to the conservative pundit David Horowitz speak last Thursday in the Science Center. For the most part, it was everything I expected it would be—Horowitz spilling his reactionary ideas backed by historical half-truths. But the most upsetting thing was the support that students in the audience showed for him. When Horowitz was bold enough to claim that certain countries were plagued by “screwed up cultures,” Harvard students were disrespectful enough to clap and cheer. That students at this premier University would...