Word: meritable
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While fabulists generate national attention because of schadenfreude (and in turn, help Crimson reporters get their names in the national press), perhaps breaking stories that merit national stature, including about the presidential search or reforms to the Core would be a better use of resources...
...Some [black actors] were criticized for playing stereotypical violent roles as black men,” Cheek says. “But it’s probably a good film,” he hastened to add, separating the any given blaxploitation film’s artistic merit from its social ethics. Unfortunately, access to floor 2R is restricted to guests with an Institute escort...
...higher premiums or new out-of-pocket expenses. Stated another way, your 4% raise is actually closer to 3%. Of course, employers tend to look at it differently. "It's a phenomenon we call the hidden paycheck because companies have essentially been substituting health-benefit dollars for salary and merit increases," says Ron Fontanetta of the benefits-consulting firm Towers Perrin...
...draw attention” to an argument. Yet in doing so they draw more attention to themselves than to the actual issues. Students at Harvard who are passionate enough about an issue to stage a protest would be more effective if they focused their efforts on the intellectual merit of their arguments. Though inducing others to join a cause through rallies and protests may seem the revolutionary, “cool” thing to do—a throwback to the ’60s—to Harvard students and administrators it seems patronizing. Lectures, debates, discussions, informational...
...reasoning behind the decision to cancel events on Thursday night—that two consecutive nights of College-sponsored partying would be excessively debaucherous—does have some merit, but is ultimately not compelling. It would be almost inconceivable at just about any other university, after all, for administrators to help fund one huge pre-game, and to support two in a single week would be exceptional to say the least. The fact of the matter is, however, that we’re not talking about just any weekend. The Harvard-Yale game comes to Cambridge once every...