Word: meritably
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This change, regardless of its merit, was instituted in an unfair and deceitful way. By not sending seniors and other concentrators an official announcement and especially by making the change retroactive, the Economics Department acted irresponsibly toward its concentrators...
...well-balanced celebrities accept their fame as part of their working life, but also an irrelevance and an intrusion and a pain in the neck. It is true that people live more comfortably with fame when they are confident that it is something they have earned by their own merit and hard work over a period of time...
...trouble is that fame at the end of the 20th century--a global, multicultural and multimedia saturation--gets distributed by a sort of cultural chaos theory, detached not only from merit in many cases but also from any comprehensible framework of value and virtue. And so beneath the surface floats a fierce sense of injustice--a sense of ethical dislocation, as if the laws of cause and effect had been rescinded. In such a culture, to be obscure is by definition to be a failure. The obscure man asks bitterly, "Why is he famous, and not I? What...
...Since then the city has made extensive investment in its transport system and infrastructure, whose deficiencies allowed Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...
Fortunately, even its conventionality doesn't keep this "Shrew" from being an amusing play overall. With a great cast, good direction and lots of energy, this production is guaranteed to make even the most cynical critic laugh. It may not have any lasting artistic merit other than that of sheer entertainment. But every so often, that's all you really need...