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...university grants a candidate "extra points" for a variety of reasons, including a high-quality essay, athletic participation, geographic location and parental alum status. These reasons can be divided into two categories--merit and non-merit. Clearly, a strong essay or a commitment to athletics is deserving of merit, whereas a person's skin color, residence or parents are hardly indicative of achievement. In lumping these two separate and distinct categories together, the University of Michigan heads down the wrong path...
...MIGHT NOT Art films today are often slow films, and if Yi Yi's pulse were any slower it would merit not a review but an autopsy. At 2 hr. 53 min., it contains many scenes of silent staring into the middle distance--human disasters made statuesque and static...
...than a political witch hunt. The spectacle of Gusinsky being sent home in handcuffs by Spanish law enforcement officers will undermine his claims to martyrdom - at least in the court of Russian public opinion. But then the converse may also be true: If Spain's courts fail to find merit in the case brought by Russia, it may actually help Gusinsky paint himself as the victim of political machinations...
...America. Dr. Prinz was certainly not alone in his beliefs. The studio that originally produced "A Hard Day's Night," United Artists, commissioned the film only because they divined (correctly) that they would make money from the soundtrack album. So unconvinced were they that the film itself would have merit that they ordered producer Walter Shenson and director Richard Lester to have the film written, shot, edited and released within 20 short weeks because they were certain that the Beatles craze wouldn't last beyond the summer...
...Gore's strongest chance of winning the election. On Tuesday, James Baker introduced four new lawyers without assigning one to the Seminole issue. "We're not concerned about Seminole County," he said when asked about it by a reporter. "We do not think that that claim really has merit...