Word: judgments
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...This year's nominees will reflect the judgment of 81 active voting members - journalists representing 55 countries and publications with a combined reach of more than 250 million readers. The annual awards ceremony (scheduled this season for the evening of Jan. 11) is regularly one of America's most-watched televised awards shows. But while a Golden Globe gives winning films and TV series considerable exposure to a wider audience, it is the ceremony's position on the Oscar calendar that brings the HFPA considerable influence...
...smooth out the sharp edges. Always self-conscious and tongue-tied at critical social moments, I imagine that a martini might mitigate my wallflower fate, or at least give me something to do with one of my hands. In addition, I will never have a convenient excuse for questionable judgment. These little advantages that the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase-endowed take for granted are to me like warm rays of social salvation, without which I have become etiolated and uninteresting...
...memorable character I've met, I never know how to reply. Was it Nelson Mandela, with a steel-trap political sense sneaking out from under the surface charm and grace? Or Margaret Thatcher in her pomp, allying clarity of thought to an utter conviction in the rightness of her judgment? Or Bill Clinton in 1991, fizzing with ideas and intellectual curiosity, before we knew how indiscipline would diminish him? Or any one of countless others...
...Next to a former superpower and two ancient civilizations boasting over one billion citizens, the South American giant may have seemed Lilliputian. But the global economic crisis has made a huge difference. Brazil’s admirable resistance to the current turmoil vindicates its placement. It also strengthens the judgment that the B-side of the BRIC dream is not one of scandalous GDP growth rates, but one of steady 3-7 percent increases per year. Current estimates for 2009 hover around 3 percent, even as economies around the world stagnate or shrink. Yet the government’s more...
...International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda established the precedent that rape warfare is in fact a crime of genocide, in its judgment on the extermination of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis at the hands of Rwandan Hutu militias. It was a landmark addition to the term?s legal definition, and a judgment that could be important in future International Criminal Court proceedings related to the current situation in Darfur. Many observers have recounted stories of rape being used systematically as a weapon in Sudan for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, and the International Criminal Court is expected to decide...