Word: judgmentã
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Surely, then, it must be best for the University—one which wishes, according to the Curricular Review report, to “help students develop their capacities…for responsible judgment??—to invest in the arms trade, in ecological disaster, in the terrorizing of workers in Colombia, in the military dictatorship in Burma, or until last spring, in genocide in Darfur...
Kerry’s greatest campaign moment was his speech at New York University in September when he called the Iraq war a “colossal failure of judgment?? and said he would not have invaded. But it was too late. He’d already hedged his bets, telling reporters at the side of the Grand Canyon that he would have authorized force against Iraq, even knowing everything he knew now. Kerry had achieved the fine art of simultaneously playing it safe and shooting himself in the foot...
...That night, polling put Kerry’s “personal favorability” rating above Bush’s for the first time. And the president’s scowling, stammering arrogance—his shock and awe that someone in the same room would doubt his judgment??might also call into question the Republicans’ decision to shield Bush from anyone but his most devout supporters for the last four years...
...encourage careful reflection. On the contrary, it forces students to make a premature choice, though not a binding one, about whether Harvard is the single school they want to cast their lot with. Fitzsimmons can throw all the stones he likes at the straw-man “rush judgment?? that he seems to think has been suppressed by the new policy, but the fact remains that the new policy has increased the pressure for a hurried decision, not lessened...
...Germans were swept off their feet by Hitler,” says Maier regarding Sannwald’s dubious political position. “People might have poor political judgment?? [but] we still might commemorate them...