Word: merited
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Harvard has reached that level. Coach Mark Mazzoleni, his staff and his players—to their credit—are talented enough and have achieved enough during the past two seasons to merit having their big expectations begin in March and end in April...
While the idea of combining the offices of the dean of the College and dean of undergraduate education may have merit, Avery said, “there was a better way to roll it out and pursue it than what has been done...
...certain cases, clubs need to be exclusive by basing induction on merit. But unlike an a cappella group, the Hasty Pudding does not select members based on special talents. Indeed, Andrea L. Olshan ’02, the club’s former president, accurately described the Pudding as “the first purely social organization to be accepted as a student group.” And that’s what it is: a once-secret society premised on ad hoc partying. Such organizations have a right to exist outside the auspices of Harvard?...
Blum said that if the University does begin admitting students to the program on the basis of financial need and merit instead of race, the American Civil Rights Institute will file a formal complaint with the Office for Civil Rights on the grounds that the program violates Title VI of the Civil Rights...
...radicals, including five UTM academics. But they are continuing to find black sheep in other unexpected places. On Feb. 20, a former lieutenant colonel in the Malaysian Army, Abdul Manaf Kamsuri, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to JI. Abdul Manaf, a high-flying officer who won three merit awards when he graduated from Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, served nine months in Bosnia as part of Malaysia's U.N. peacekeeping force from 1993 to 1994. Malaysian officials say that while there he befriended al-Qaeda members fighting in support of the Bosnians. After being forced to resign from...