Word: merit
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...responsibility for allocating performance space among student groups should be taken out of the hands of Epps, who has demonstrated his unwillingness to treat all groups fairly. Instead, decisions should be made by a student-faculty committee on the basis of groups' artistic merit and potential ability to attract crowds...
Unfortunately, the staff's proposal does not live up to this goal. The proposed joint student-faculty committee would employ two criteria in assigning performance space: potential to draw crowds and "artistic merit." The first of these is valid--in fact, it is the only fair criterion. The second smacks of subjectivity and paternalism...
There is no magic key to internationalization. There is no amount of experience with foreign cultures that will automatically make us think globally. The information and exposure that the University is trying to provide are interesting and deserve merit, but these aspects alone will not make Harvard an international place. The programs are too much like showing students slides of someone else's summer vacation to Europe...
...second grade, and the territory Wasserstein covers has been strip-mined by those who preceded her -- Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman and Anna Quindlen. A piece about the split between women who shave their legs and those who don't would have to come up with some dazzling insights to merit another look. Ditto painted nails, being fat or single...
...very happy to be chosen, but my only gripe with the process is that they say it is a merit-based award yet they charge you for membership," said Sheila Kannappan '91, another new member...