Word: deservingness
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It may seem such an obvious prescription -- build housing, and then help people hold on to it. But it has taken a long time to strip homeless policy of its mythology. For years, whenever the congressional committees or the network-news programs took up the cause, they would call Robert...
Harvard's admissions policy demeans real "scholar-athletes" and truly deserving legacies by perpetuating negative stereotypes. It discriminates against groups such as Asian-Americans who are statistically more likely to have high GPA's, but less likely to be involved in athletics in high school.
What does America's space program have in common with a soprano saxophone? Quite a lot, when the instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close...
I was scared to say what happened because society, including the police that same night, had made it very clear to me that I was somehow "deserving of such treatment.
Atlanta may not be Athens--or even Berlin or Tokyo--but it is nonetheless deserving of the committee's recognition. Athens represents hide-bound tradition and a sclerotic inability to break away from the past. Atlanta represents vitality, mobility and a constant eye on the future. Not to mention the...