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After planning a column condemning judgment, I felt like the biggest hypocrite in the world considering my reaction to Kaavya’s plight. When my friends judged her, labeling her as someone who had done something egregiously wrong, I went right along with them in condemning her actions. But I too have done things that can be considered morally wrong. We all have. I have yet to meet someone who has not done something they regretted, but did it anyway because they thought they wouldn’t get caught. So perhaps we don’t have...
OFFICERS OF THE intelligence community or officers of the CIA cannot take it upon themselves to make a judgment that one particular activity is O.K. but another isn't--and then take it upon themselves, if they can't convince people inside, to go to the press and expose it. The duty of an analyst or operator is to weigh in during internal debate or planning on a given topic...
...fair to run the comic because, by Sunday night, the story had been widely discussed and had been picked up by several other newspapers. A good number of Harvard students had already been thinking about the issue for a day, and we concluded we were not preempting their judgment of the case by imputing them with one. As an extra precaution, and in recognition of the sensitivity of the situation, we had the illustrator, who normally publishes under a pseudonym, attach her name to the cartoon.—William C. Marra, who is The Crimson?...
...better educated than they appear to be. They have chosen their bus, and their home-schooled children are both smarter and less anxious than the Munro kids. On the other hand, if we are truly an open society, we have to be open to learn to reserve judgment, to entertain the possibility that things (and people) are not necessarily what they seem at first glance to be. That thought sometimes applies to movies as well. Maybe this tacky, low-life movie, featuring an over-abundance of jokes about flatulence and other embarrassing bodily functions, has a - well, er - slyly instructional...
...would need to gather much more information on this situation before we could make any kind of judgment,” FAS director of communications Robert Mitchell said. “Bloomberg decided to call ‘gathering information’ an ‘investigation.’ This is not a term that we have used...