Word: meritable
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...starving themselves. Now on the sixth day of an indefinite hunger strike, their hand-written white T-shirts make clear their position on the government's controversial new policy to increase quotas for lower-caste students at the country's elite educational institutions: DON'T MIX POLITICS WITH MERIT; QUOTAS: THIS CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE; MERIT IS MY CASTE, WHAT'S YOURS...
...UC’s Student Affairs Committee and the sponsor of the UC’s statement, said he appreciated Bok’s willingness to meet but that he wished the incoming president had run possible candidates by the students.“Student opinion does have merit in talking about some of the more confidential issues and can be trusted to do so,” Petersen said on Monday.‘A GENEROUS INSTITUTIONALIST’While Knowles received accolades from a wide range of professors this week, he is connected to some of the controversies...
...that dispatched troops to Iraq (and which still remain there), Japan has become a target for terrorists. Thus a law which screens entering aliens and puts their personal information in a database may be crucial to safeguarding Tokyo from the fate of Istanbul, Riyadh, or Bali. There is some merit to this argument, though Japan’s exclusively logistic and non-combat role in the War on Terror makes it far less (if at all) a terrorist’s target than the U.S. The fingerprinting law, however, also raises many serious concerns, though slightly different from those surrounding...
...Student opinion does have merit in talking about some of the more confidential issues and can be trusted to do so,” Petersen said on Monday...
...Vatican official Francis Cardinal Arinze said the film's insults to the faith may merit legal action to stop its dissemination...