Word: meritable
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...reject proposals.“There are very few studies that can’t be modified to satisfy our safety standards, but when there is possible danger to anyone involved, we must weigh the risk to the subject and researcher against the project’s scientific merit,” Gallant said. “When we are considering proposals to do research abroad, we must also take into account the student’s past experience with the language, the government, and local customs.” FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION?Another way in which Harvard attempts...
...issues, at every school in our league, and [a postseason tournament] to me would be great for student athlete welfare, wonderful for the student body at those schools,” Sullivan said. “They’d like to see meaningful exciting games that have some merit [at season’s end]. It’s a great way to create excitement, great way to create interest, and it’s what our student athletes want...
...ambassador, Pak has traveled outside New York—to Washington, D.C., for example—to visit Capitol Hill. But the State Department should have realized the importance of his viewpoint and issued him a visa to speak at Harvard. The measure of a speaker’s merit is not the content of the ideas he or she represents. Instead, it is the importance of those ideas in the world today. Pak may represent opinions different from the majority of Americans, but that does not lessen his merit as a speaker. To cite a recent example...
Television personality Stephen Colbert concluded an appearance at the Kennedy School of Government on Friday evening by telling a sold-out crowd that he’d given them enough information to merit a graduate degree from Harvard. “Well, I think we’ve all learned enough here today. Consider this your graduation ceremony,” he said, raising his arms. “Students of the Kennedy School of Government, you are free to go!” At the time, Colbert was not speaking as himself, but as “Stephen Colbert...
...Mohammed Ali Jinnah was an extraordinary leader of high stature and merit, and one of the most brilliant statesmen of his time. American scholar Stanley Wolpert, a South Asia expert, has remarked that Jinnah was for Pakistan what Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru combined were for India. But while you chose to put Gandhi and Nehru on the cover of one of your editions, you did not afford Jinnah the same courtesy. That's unfair. Aziz-ul-Haq Qureshi Chief Coordinator Nazaria-i-Pakistan Foundation Lahore, Pakistan...