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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...
...students of this university, are not some hand-selected intellectual elite that unquestionably earned our place here. We were chosen to reflect diverse forms of merit in an arguably arbitrary way. Asian Americans are underrepresented relative to their academic performance simply because, in light of other considerations that are prioritized above merit, there are more qualified Asian applicants than will be accepted. Rationalizations based on speculation about the personal qualities of these students compared to those of other ethnic groups are based on ill-informed and racist stereotypes...
...well qualified Asian applicants but also admitting a more diverse candidate pool. Karabel reports in “The Chosen” that 40 percent of legacies were admitted in 2002 compared to 11 percent of other applicants. There is a bias here that is not simply based on merit: While one might argue that legacy admits are simply correlated with better qualifications, high-performing Asian Americans are suffering the opposite of this kind of preferential admission...
...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...