Word: acountable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, musical anonymity may drain one's bank acount but it certainly does not siphon off one's creative juices. While Dylan has managed to put together only two records of any quality in the past decade, Thompson, now divorced from Linda, has delivered a string of ten killer albums culminating in his most complexly beautiful since Bright Lights: Across A Crowded Room...
...courts would undoubtedly become over-crowded to the point of collapse). Less amusing is the fact that "merit" is usually trumpeted as the supreme good which affirmative action undermines, while in reality, anyone can name a thousand and one instances in which factors other than merit were taken into acount in, for example, getting a job. There are too many people who get jobs through parents, friends, "old-boy" networks, or the workings of a political patronage system. Each example belies the notion that affirmative action tampers with cherished, purely "meritocratic" ideals. At Harvard, students and admissions officers have openly...