Word: judgmentalism
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Richard Reeves, author of the 1993 study, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, has said this: "The final judgment of a leader of democracy [is] whether he or she brings out the best or the worst of the people. On that score, I rate JFK a great leader...
...takes this belief a step further, suggesting that gay activists are in fact attempting to poison the youth of America with same-sex propaganda. Christian conservatives fear that children are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life, when they are not old enough to make a mature judgment about their own inclinations. The Utah legislature recently passed a bill banning gay clubs in state high schools. And at Merrimack High School in New Hampshire, teachers have stopped using a film on the life of Walt Whitman because it mentions...
...ceilinged room in the Hart Senate Office Building that was as dreary as his speech was soaring, Bob Dole, his prairie voice thick with emotion, said, "I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people and nowhere to go but the White House or home." In front of his Senate colleagues, with whom he is far more comfortable trading quips about subcommittee chairmen, he sounded positively Reaganesque. While his colleagues looked on in sadness, Dole announced that he would resign on or before June 11, "and I will then stand before...
...sooty steps from near the cockpit, indicate there was a fire on board the plane. And minutes before the crash, pilot Candalyn Kubeck told the Miami tower the cockpit was filling with smoke. Company president Lewis Jordan, a former head of Continental Airlines, has cautioned against a "rush to judgment," but told TIME late last week that to his knowledge, ValuJet was not authorized to carry the generators. Another possibility being investigated is that a short in the plane's wiring might have started the fire...
Asking clever questions is also part of the Oxford Union tradition. Nick Howard, son of Home Secretary Michael Howard, asked Simpson what sort of reception he thought he would receive from God on Judgment Day. Well, replied Simpson, "I haven't exactly been monogamous." Otherwise, his conscience is clear. "In terms of these murders," he said, "I feel at peace with myself...