Word: meritable
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...What was striking about the case, Baze v. Rees, was that after 36 years of extensive litigation over capital punishment, the Court is as scattered as ever. A case in which none of the justices ultimately found much merit nevertheless provoked seven separate opinions, controlled by a weak three-judge plurality...
...ultimately a somewhat superficial analysis of the problem of evil. Similarly, her examination of the rich never proceeds beyond their stinginess, and her look at America’s treatment of Native Americans never emerges from simply assigning blame. These conclusions may be true, but they fail to merit the project of the poem.Beyond her polemics, Paley’s plainspoken nature reveals a subtle sense of humor. In “I Met a Seducer,” she injects her own into her characters to create a memorable sequence of dialogue: “now said one what...
...issue with these alternative benchmarks is not whether they have merit (most do) but whether they can be measured with anything like the frequency, reliability and impartiality of GDP. A National Academy of Sciences panel recommended in 2005 that the U.S. look into measuring household work, investments in education and health care and environmental assets--but as satellite accounts, not part of GDP. Says Katharine Abraham, a University of Maryland professor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, who headed up that effort: "One problem with these expanded measures--why I wouldn't want to see them replace...
...enact would be to raise the maximum number of Pell Grants, the federal grant for students from low-income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate...
...around 8 or 9 percent—this year, a mere 7.1 percent were admitted. Yet the admissions rate was between 34 and 35 percent for legacy applicants to the class of 2011 . Given the weight its degrees carry, shouldn’t Harvard base its admissions solely on merit? Why should legacy status serve even as a “feather in the scale,” as Dean of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 put it? Maybe no one has made the right case for legacies. Sure, their SAT scores may be, on average, slightly higher...