Word: meritable
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Harvard is not a meritocracy. Not only do the costs of this system weigh disproportionately upon Asian Americans, the considerations prioritized above merit also come at the expense of true diversity beyond racial tokenism: a diversity of socioeconomic background and representation from within racial groups...
...high-ranking official in Ortega's first government dismissed charges by Ortega's stepdaughter Zoilamrica Narvez that Ortega had sexually abused her when she was a girl in the 1980s. Ortega denied the charges, but the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said the case had merit. (Ortega's wife and Narvez's mother, poet Rosario Murillo, stands by Ortega...
...former U.S. diplomat in the European Office of the United Nations, questioned the prize’s effectiveness even as he supported Ibrahim’s intentions. Moose, who leads an IOP study group called “Africa in the Multilateral System,” questioned the merit of providing heads of states with a safety net to fall on after they retire and thus prevent corruption. “First, nothing is ever black and white, so how can the candidates be accurately judged?” he said. “And who is to judge them...
...More troops in Iraq would have made a quantitative difference, but not a qualitative one. And there is some merit to the argument that increasing the size of the U.S. footprint could just as easily have widened the hostility to their presence. The Iraqi insurgency has been impressively adaptive, and would very likely have found a way of expressing its nasty politics even with twice as many American boots on the ground. And the sectarian rivalries that are fueling the civil war are as much present in the democratic political institutions as they are on the violent streets...
...country's more moderate parties. One key dividend for Ortega: In 2001 a Sandinista judge dismissed Narvaez's sexual abuse charges against Ortega, despite the fact that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, has ruled that her case has merit. The dismissal, along with the new power Ortega has amassed in recent years via his alliance with Aleman, has helped make the Sandinista leader Sunday's front-runner, with 30% or more of the vote in recent polls. And under new electoral rules written by the Sandinista-Liberal partnership, Ortega needs...