Word: meritable
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...Still, these are hardly enough to merit a severe criticism of the book as a whole. Letters are an anomaly in the age of information technology; how many times have we heard the complaint that letter-writing has become a lost art? This book is a testament to the intimacy that a two-line e-mail could never replicate. For devotees of Naipaul's work, Family Letters provides a fascinating portrait of an artist as a young man that could not be captured in any other...
...this essay my main idea is that though turner's examination and explication of this state of marginality has significant sociological merit, it is lacking in the psychological analysis necessary to truly understand the human disposition with respect to liminality in cult membership. The psychological torment that the neophyte endures is the direct result of his systematic demoralization, which makes the idea of social death even more genuine. The biggest problems that I am having in the writing process are my inability to do an outline, my inability to stay within the page limitations given, and my ability...
There is some merit to both perspectives. Obviously, the military should not be a testing ground for theories of social justice. When it comes to war and peace, we do not have the luxury of running controls or tweaking variables ad infinitum; if the experiment fails, men and women die. In this regard, the callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed...
...Burton's race. The presence of the head of Harvard branch of the NAACP, as well as S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, at the council meeting that discussed the constitutionality of Burton's trial made the scandal juicy enough to merit a Boston Globe article. As most people know from the antics of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, race is one of the surest means to generate interest among a population...
...issue of race in the impeachment trial flared briefly, but died just as quickly because it had little merit. Indeed, the entire saga of Burton-centered controversies will most likely fade into the student body's collective consciousness. The best scandals (Watergate, the Teapot Dome) succeed because they contain kernels of truth. With regard to the council's controversy, members of the body are still unsure whether or not Driskell and Burton actually overspent their campaign limit. This scandal was based on vague half-truths, at best...