Word: meritable
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Measuring Merit...
...elite colleges approach athletic admissions reveals much about how broadly they define the merit that underpins meritocracy. Nobody wants a British-style system, where academic test scores are all that matter. But colleges recognize musical talent, reward unique life experiences and the overcoming of adversity, and recently established a “compelling interest” in racial diversity at the Supreme Court. What, if anything, separates prowess on the playing field from talent on the trombone...
Demonstrating against the absence of harmless symbols has merit but the real challenge in the case of Palestine and similar peoples or nations is to provide education to their younger citizens. Such efforts should also include opportunities for gifted students to attend leading colleges and graduate schools such as those at Harvard...
...those with fewer than 20 employees. The big companies have generally come to terms with the law and aren't asking for a change. The big problem is in the public sector, where changing it has provoked opposition that we have to take into account. The debate on the merit of the 35-hour week is still open, but we've made changes that are indispensable for France's smaller companies, which are the backbone of the French economy. But it's precisely those smaller companies that rail about protected civil servants who only work 35 hours a week...
Whether or not it was Harvard’s place to support a book that takes a stance left of center, the Shorenstein Center has acknowledged that the book has scholarly merit...