Word: judgments
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This arrogance also is manifested by a reluctance to criticize anything related to Harvard and the (rarely articulated) assumption that any student who graduated from this institution is endowed with near supernatural attributes of intelligence and judgment...
...having carefully reviewed the dossier several times and taken into account the entire range of views expressed. In cases where I decide not to approve a recommendation for a tenured appointment, I do so knowing that my decision may well be questioned, sometimes strongly, by some distinguished scholars whose judgment I respect. In these circumstances, I know of no way to proceed other than to be as comprehensive and careful as I can be, and then to reach a conclusion based on my conscientious assessment of all of the evidence presented...
Several senior Faculty members refused to comment on the letter, citing its private nature. However, one signatory who asked not to be identified said that the letter made no judgment on Honig's qualifications for tenure, but "merely made the point that the decision not to tenure her has an additional cost...
...many ways the most pious and morally obsessed of nations outside the Islamic world. Recent polls suggest that 96% of Americans believe in a personal God and that 78% of them think their consciousness will survive death and go, after judgment, to heaven or hell. Its earliest colonists in the Northeast--Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, "Pennsylvania Dutch"--were all seeking to flee European persecution and corruption (as they saw it) and trying to set up various kinds of religious Utopias. The main tool of Catholic Spain's colonization in the Southwest was the Franciscan mission. And yet the paradoxical fact...
...RADEK, 54 A founding member of Justice's public-integrity section in the aftermath of Watergate, Radek supervises Ingersoll's team. An even-tempered, down-to-earth Chicago native, he is known for his street savvy, lawyerly acumen and good judgment. After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990s, he has slimmed down and forsaken the cheap cigars whose stench once pervaded the office. He is passionate about golf (but has little time to play), and his Elvis impersonations for the public-integrity support staff at Christmas are legendary...