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Harvard’s brief concludes that “[Minuto’s] position is legally and factually without merit, his conduct has been dishonest, and the motion [to admit Minuto] must be denied...
...that the government has gone so easy on arsenic is, according to critics, a testament to the political muscle of the $4 billion-a-year wood-treatment industry. The industry counters that it has been left alone because it deserves to be--and the case it makes has some merit. If CCA were as deadly as some say, factory workers who make the stuff and carpenters who work with it ought to be falling ill in droves. Yet no one reports a measurable increase in disease among these groups. "Certainly, if there were a danger, it would show up," says...
...called “merit aid” has made it harder for students from low- and middle-income families to attend college, since aid has not necessarily been focused on those who financially need it, according to financial aid officials...
Harvard officials were also concerned that since some of the schools which signed the agreement offer merit aid or athletic scholarships, that placing a “cap” on need-based aid—a cap on top of which those other schools could still offer merit or athletic aid—would place Harvard, which does not provide merit or athletic scholarships, at a strategic disadvantage in the admissions process...
...argue with our choice of Best Novelist or Best Singer, but no one doubts each is a legitimate category. Where the debate gets trickier is whether some categories even merit inclusion, such as Best DJ. We ultimately decided yes, and music critic Chris Farley defends that decision in his story...