Word: meritably
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...unless you see some significance in the dark circles under his eyes, or the toupee that has gone from chestnut to salt-and-pepper, or the fact that as his Lincoln sedan has zoomed from event to event, Cianci has worked most of the way through a pack of Merit Ultralights while a half-finished glass of Scotch sits forgotten in the cup holder at his elbow and Steve Tyrell croons...
...point, of course, is not that the former Fletcher University Professor is a closet racist, but rather that when one goes looking for racism, it seems to pop up everywhere. Better to reserve condemnation for those who truly merit it—“racist” is too serious an epithet to be tossed about offhandedly...
...close-minded views of state governments, absent any real scientific merit, should not be allowed to stifle romance between consenting adults. Congress must protect these rights by passing legislation that would protect first cousin marriages in all states. It is highly hypocritical for the government to deny marriage to these couples when they allow those with even more easily transferable conditions to marry. A child whose parents each have a single gene for a recessive disease such as sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis has a 25 percent chance of actually contracting the disease, yet the government does not restrict...
...She’d probably done that trip 20 or more times in the last two years—it was her thing,’’ said Lipkin-Moore, who added that her daughter was National Merit finalist who planned to attend Brandeis or Boston University. ‘’The day before it happened, she told me, `I’ve got to go to Boston tomorrow.’ It was her nourishment...
...majority of the student body thinks racial and ethnic groups on campus self-segregate, why did it take Cornel West leaving to get most students talking about race? What about the lives we live every day? The actions of students as well as administrators merit being questioned in this discussion of diversity...