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...Your mind tends to wander and take you with it. You learn something standing in the crowd. I think of the inconvenience of serving on a jury last summer and the hours we spent poring over a case of criminal assault. It's hard work summoning up your best judgment on behalf of the law, and to do the work with that slice-of-St.-Paul bunch of moms and retirees and folks from Cubicleville was a revelation. If I were the accused, I'd want that jury and not one chosen from the express lane of life...
According to the e-mail, Darst’s actions “were inappropriate and demonstrated poor judgment in the interpretation of the interim rules of which he was, judging from our correspondence with him, aware...
Until recently, Li Ka-shing's business judgment seemed above reproach, thanks to his decades of virtually flawless maneuverings in everything from container ports to hotel management. The chairman of conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa enjoyed a reputation not unlike America's Warren Buffett?when he made a contrarian call, everyone assumed he was right and the world was wrong. But Li's latest and most controversial move yet?a mobile-telecom venture called Hutchison 3G?has some wondering whether the guy they call Superman has lost his mind...
...Blix, 74, has been entrusted with judgment calls that could delay or hasten war. He downplays the difficulty of his job - knowing when Iraq is trying to thwart his inspectors, he says, will "be a matter of common sense." Until last week the closest Blix had come to Baghdad in recent years was the satellite photo of the Iraqi capital that dominates one wall of his spartan office at U.N. headquarters in New York. The space reflects both Blix's low-key personality as well as the fact that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President...
...would not let personal relationships cloud their foreign policy, it is clear that in some cases, Bush's gut rules. The president has taken a personal liking to Russian President Vladimir Putin despite having said he would not fall into that trap, and he has made a similarly personal judgment, though with very different results, about Schroeder...