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Rudenstine criticized the trend among somecolleges of awarding merit-based scholarships toparticularly desirable students, regardless ofeconomic background. Rudenstine warned against aconcentration of scholarship dollars that "couldleave us with a much less equitable and lesscost-effective system, with more aid going tofewer students, and less available to those withreal needs...
...Even accepting the allegations as true, the plaintiff's case has no merit under the law," said Harvey J. Wolkoff, a second defense attorney for the case...
Bill Clinton needs to select people who will work best for the American team. They shouldn't have to meet any criterion but merit for these jobs. And yet, in today's selection process, it is acceptable for Clinton to select not the best people for the job, but the best people in certain minority groups...
...administration that whines apologies for its liberal free speech policies. The utter breakdown of grammar, style, taste, conscience and general merit in the newer Yorker. Flaccid white walls in the Lowell dining hall. People bothering to argue about the relative intellectual merits of Madonna's book. The kidnapping of the Rational Right by various mutated isthmus-dwellers. The destruction of the public space in front of Au Bon Pain so the Ministry of Holyoke can grow by .4 percent this year...
...real question is, does the opportunitycost [of maintaining HMC] outweigh the hard dollarmanagement cost," asked one alumnus. "Five billionis certainly a critical mass to merit having acaptive unit...but if you don't have able andexperienced people, you're not going tooutperform...