Word: meritable
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Three new American novels that are not of quite the same quality as those by the authors mentioned above nonetheless hope to update this tradition. One is superb; another, which could easily have been dismissed as a curiosity, has surprising merit; while the third, the most eagerly anticipated of the three, falls well short of expectations. The cities: Los Angeles, Washington and New York. The books: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner (Villard; 319 pages; $23), Powertown by Michael Lind (HarperCollins; 264 pages; $23) and Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison (Crown; 355 pages; $24). The themes: sex, power...
...actually a bit surprised," said Daniel K. Biss, '99-'98, a math concentrator. "The University does not usually give merit-based scholarships and it just didn't seem within the pattern of their doing with money...
Although there has been some frustration welling among the members of the team, the merit of the Crimson's 5-0 record can not be denied...
...lottery has the educational merit of corporal punishment. It must be abolished outright and replaced with another method, perhaps a method as cumbersome as written application. This is, after all, Harvard, not the University of Michigan. --Michael Fertik...
Last September, I went door-to-door for several days, campaigning and finding out what issues residents of Straus, Matthews and Massachusetts Halls cared about. Since many of them were concerned about randomization--and although I personally was undecided on its merit--I worked in the fall term discussing protests and petitions against randomization, and I tried to arrange an information session with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 on the topic...