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...National Institutes of Health website characterizes dementia as the “significant impairment” of memory, reasoning and judgment...
...intelligence officers operate out of embassies under the cover of diplomatic immunity, and America's envoys are used to the advances of foreign agents?and to reporting them promptly when they happen. So Washing-ton's diplomatic corps was stunned last week when Keyser, a practitioner known for impeccable judgment and intimate knowledge of the intelligence world, was arrested by federal agents. The diplomatic gaffe was surprising enough: the U.S. keeps contacts with Taiwan at arm's length out of deference to China, and visits to the island by key diplomats are very infrequent and require top-level approval...
...primary objectives for producing this work. He spends an entire chapter attacking the Game of Life premise that incoming student-athletes with low AIs are more likely to underachieve than their classmates. He points out that the AI has serious inherent flaws, as it limits its judgment of the competency of a student to SAT I and SAT II test scores as well as class rank or grade point average. Through several anecdotal examples—the primary form of evidence that Lincoln relies on in the work—he shows that AI is a poor indicator of one?...
...attack seems to stem from a philosophy that a negative candidacy is doomed to fail—and that optimism is key. A positive message is certainly worthwhile, but not at the expense of self-defense and a potentially dangerous inability to criticize the chief executive’s judgment. Optimism is all well and good, but Kerry is running for president, not head cheerleader. His pal Bill Clinton is right: Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. But it certainly would be stupid not to show a little more strength...
Well, for one thing, taxes aren’t only about drags on the economy. It’s also about making judgment calls about who should foot the bill, about what is money earned versus money happened upon, about where the burden of funding the federal government ought to lie. (Those of us who took Ec 10 probably remember that lecture on the difference between positive and normative statements...