Word: judgments
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...rose to cross-examine a witness. Westmoreland, who dropped his claim, told Vanity Fair that he wouldn't have given up if he'd "had one [lawyer] like Boies." A few days before Thanksgiving 14 years ago, Boies was drafted to handle Texaco's appeal of a $10.6 billion judgment for interfering in Pennzoil's acquisition of Getty Oil. He devoured 30,000 pages of trial transcript between visits to the bedside of his mother, who was dying of brain cancer...
...member of the Communist party is not fit to be on the faculty because he has not the necessary independence of thought and judgment," Pusey said...
...There are other, less happy, outcomes on the horizon as well. Most immediately, the possibility that the high court refuses to pass a sweeping judgment on Gore's ongoing contest in Florida. This would effectively pull the rug out from underneath the Republican argument, and could set them up for disappointment down the road...
...Gore's ruthless ambition impairs his judgment. If he became president, and thus fulfilled his ambition, would his judgment improve? The nation must hope so. On the other hand, if Gore were to lose, would the loss mellow his ambition and deepen his character? Would he stop running up and down rope lines like an afternoon game show host...
Gore should disconnect himself completely from power for a couple of years - that power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should, for two years, listen to people, and learn to walk like a normal human being. He should school himself in a sort of Japanese self-effacement, learning to describe his achievements as "worthless" or "miserable...