One of the central arguments that Gov. George W. Bush has made against the hand recounts in Florida is that machines are impartial and much more reliable than humans.
With partisan attacks and political pressure mounting,it's much more difficult to achieve fair and impartial judgments.
Whether a judge is on the highest court in the land or on one of the many others, we are much more likely, in a case where his impartiality has been questioned, to view him as impartial if another judge concludes so after conducting an independent appraisal.
Yet in so manipulated a political environment as contemporary Russia, it seems too much to hope that these brave women will have a more impartial judge than that blasphemous Hebrew who so upset the state and the religious authorities of his day.
Much more was expected of them, including the insistence on a thorough and impartial investigation of the killing".
Today, if journalists want to sell "copy," they, like Leibovich, are much more inclined to posture as celebrities embedded in the very story they are covering, rather than impartial observers rendering painful or enlightening truths.
"The idea," said the institution's current secretary-general, Meg Kinnear, "is if an investor feels that there is a fair, impartial mechanism should they ever get to a dispute, then they will have that much more confidence and it will help to promote investment … and when you invest in a country you obviously bring jobs, revenue, technology and the like".
The Herald's choices have been more impartial.
Patten says poll findings show the public think the BBC is more impartial than other broadcasters.
And only more impartial digging will resolve the mystery of Glozel.
