Word: meritable
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...didn't stay there long. On Aug. 9, Reid was back in Amsterdam. It was a good choice. Amsterdam is an open city. In its streets and bars, a rough-looking and by all accounts singularly malodorous Englishman would hardly merit a second glance. He spent much of his time sending e-mails to addresses in Pakistan from Internet cafes. Presumably, it was during these months that the plan to bomb Flight 63 took shape...
...worms for the sport--and sport is a word I choose carefully. In the Olympics, figure skating is sport, not entertainment. As a result, international officials should change at least two things. First, currently, when two skaters or pairs tie on overall scores, judges use the artistic-merit score to break the tie. But if skating is truly a sport, how can a championship rest on the more loosely defined artistic merit? The technical score, which is much less open to interpretation, should be the ultimate criterion...
...didn't stay there long. On Aug. 9, Reid was back in Amsterdam. It was a good choice. Amsterdam is an open city. In its streets and bars, a rough-looking and by all accounts singularly malodorous Englishman would hardly merit a second glance. He spent much of his time sending e-mails to addresses in Pakistan from Internet cafes. Presumably, it was during these months that the plan to bomb Flight 63 took shape...
...means pushing forward our accumulated knowledge of the world, working to improve our collective understanding, not just ourselves. Harvard is no longer a gentleman’s finishing school, but a serious place of intellectual inquiry, which can give the resources to push knowledge forward only to those who merit such resources. University President Lawrence H. Summers spoke in October about making the academic experience the center of College life. He has since expressed his intention to tackle grade inflation. Those two issues are intimately linked...
...last semester, Lowdermilk left Harvard to transfer to the prestigious Berklee College of Music. It cannot be doubted that he will compose many future works, and they will certainly merit attention...