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English concentrators will tell you that one of the most attractive features of Harvard’s English department is that it boasts unmatchable scholars in addition to artists of high literary merit??or, in the case of Peter M. Sacks, both at once...
...longer weigh an applicant’s ability to pay for college during admissions decisions. Brown is the last of the Ivy League universities to become need-blind; this switch means that students from all economic backgrounds applying to elite universities will finally be evaluated solely on their merit??not their money...
...problem arose this month, when the Blair government released a White Paper that proposed reconstituting the House of Lords so that it would have 600 members: 120 elected by the people of Britain, 120 selected by a special cross-party Appointments Commission for “merit?? and not for political ties, and the remainder appointed by the political parties in proportion to their representation in the House of Commons, the preeminent body of Parliament...