Word: meritable
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Students filed 19 complaints of policebrutality; not a single one was found by thepolice and the administration to have any merit...
...have a grievance procedure that'sbinding. The dean's office gets to decide if acomplaint has merit," Liazos said. "That doesn'tseem impartial...
...Smith is a sort of poet--a "slam" poet to be exact. Smith has parlayed her form of reviewing, self-promotion and a reliance on politically correct poetic pap into a career of artistic merit, at least according to the Globe's reviewers. And according to the usual litany of minorities that she writes about and uses in her over-blown theatrical "poetic" readings, there's really not that much talent there. But when you espouse sycophantic pieces dealing with Blacks, gays and society's downtrodden, it's not talent that matters--only political and sociological content...
...Jerky Boys' new film, "The Jerky Boys," features music and appearances by more big names than their underground appeal might be thought to merit, ya big hag. But Brennan tells how a couple of schmoes from the City achieved recognition with the stars. "Alan Arkin's sons knew about us," he says, "and Tom Jones--his son and his grandchildren were into...
Mildred P. Katz Manhattan, Kansas A problem in our pseudodemocracies is lack of access to those making decisions on our behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics in the democratic...