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...does admit to a disagreement with the President about asking for a special Whitewater prosecutor. She's against (wisely, as it happened). She describes the Whitewater silliness in far greater detail than she does health care, welfare reform or all those other things she cares about. There is real merit to her complaints about the linked and persistent Republican efforts to discredit her husband. But the Clintons were hardly blameless, and her case is damaged by oversimplification and opacity--her insistence on secrecy, her terrible choice of friends and business partners, her profits in the commodities market (another case...
...Court know that when the Harvard plan was originally adopted, its purpose was to achieve diversity by reducing the number of Jewish students from New York that were getting into Harvard on the basis of merit alone?” Scalia asked...
...real measure of merit is not who gets the job or degree, but what they do with it. Tomorrow our merit hits mettle. Here’s hoping we make...
...that scorecard of mine seems arbitrary, it might be worth considering that it is no more arbitrary than the concept of merit itself. Even if we agree on the criteria with which to measure, with which to make these decisions, we are still only approximating. And we, as individuals, are the decimals that get rounded off in the process...
...inspiration. Nobel Laureate Dudley Hershbach made us write poems in his Chem 10 class because he believes that the desire to learn about the root causes of phenomena in the world arises from our appreciation of the world’s beauty. Aesthetic sensibility even suffuses the judgment of merit of scientific theories; the highest compliment a scientist can bestow is to call a theory “beautiful” or to call a set of experiments “elegant.” Scientists attempt to make interesting “stories” from their research...