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...Although widely anticipated, Sarkozy's triumph nonetheless elicited an explosion of joy from supporters of his law-and-order, free market-reforming platform aimed at jump-starting France's sluggish economy. "This is a victory for the value of work and merit," exclaimed 19-year-old law student Thierry Bombet as he joined a cheering crowd of 10,000 celebrating Sarkozy's victory in the Place de la Condorde. "France is the only country in the world with a 35-hour work week - that's ridiculous!" agreed 21-year-old engineering student Fabien Pioli against the din of aging rock...
Although other institutions separate disciplinary cases from academic ones, Gross posits that there is merit to maintaining the threefold function of the College’s Ad Board...
...door and proving her competence, nobody gave a hoot about her résumé, which is why her fabrication was not caught for 28 years. What ultimately did Jones in was a different kind of meritocracy, the kind that trades in what might be called paper merit. Degrees, test scores, recommendation letters: these are all artificial substitutes for real merit. Sometimes the artificial substitute is unavoidable. When many thousands of top students are applying for a few hundred places at a top school like M.I.T., admissions officers can't plumb the depths of each applicant's soul. So they use test...
...M.I.T. in 1979, it would have been perfectly reasonable for the university to pay attention to her academic record. School officials had little else to judge her by. Twenty-eight years later, the situation is different. They know she's good at her job. She has demonstrated real merit. Why should her employer care about the paper stuff? But, of course, they did care, and she did lie. And she maintained the lie for 28 years until she was outed by anonymous sources. And this wasn't just any lie. It was a lie in the very area in which...
...HoCo maximum flexibility in planning events for their Houses to build House community. But if HoCos propose to sponsor additional events, particularly events aimed at the student body as a whole, they should be considered the same as any other student group and their applications should be judged its merit...