Word: meritable
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...claiming that SAT scores are a valid measure of scholarly merit, Choi then implies that educational institutions such as Harvard are meritocracies, promoting merit above all else. In fact, candidates are not admitted based purely on grades and test scores as Choi would have us believe...
Alternately ridiculous (brains in the basement!) and sublime (the scientific merit of psychiatry in the courtroom), "Rampage" is demanding and requires the viewer's perserverence to enjoy...
Nevertheless, they all merit some amount of discussion, which should include greater openness from the Vatican. Sinead's point is not that Pope John Paul II is fully responsible for all the world's problems, but that he, and the church, are partially responsible for some of them. Because so many people disagree with that so virulently, Sinead felt she had to do something drastic to get their attention. Evidently, it worked. Ezra Perlman...
...effect, Choi ignores standards of merit other than SAT scores and grades, in addition to misinterpreting the motive behind Harvard's recruitment policy. Choi thus gratuitously accepts the narrow standards of merit of the dominant culture, such as SAT scores and high grades. In doing so, Choi allows himself, as an Asian-American, to be used as a "model minority." He has bought into the stereotype that Asians, unlike Blacks or Hispanics, are docile, hard-working, law-abiding and respectful of educational and family institutions. He has succumbed to this colonization of the mind to the extent that he actually...
Unpretentious and genuinely bold, the concert brought an immediacy to classical music rarely evident in performances of Bach or Beethoven. Upcoming concerts of the Music Department and the Harvard Group for New Music merit attention from the Harvard community...