Word: merited
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...shapes and colors used by children, he should have remembered the learning technique most often employed by them as well: repetition. An entire gallery of simple lighted creations would have been stunning. New Light Works was not. The individual creations, especially the light boxes, had some merit individually, but they lose much of their merit when they are lumped together like this...
...military insists things are going according to plan, and that the critics are forgetting the initial warnings from the Pentagon and the White House that this would be a long, complicated war in which previous definitions no longer apply. There's some merit to this criticism. Deep down, the entertainment-driven media culture of the past decade expects a denouement within days. And nobody ever made a talking-head career out of telling audiences how well things are going...
...however, is which texts should be chosen. Hundreds of books have a claim to inclusion in the canon, and even in a year, there are only so many works that students can read in any depth. The course should focus on works of the highest literary, philosophical and historical merit and with the greatest ability to illuminate those cultures and traditions that have affected the intellectual development of the world which Harvard students will enter. They should be chosen by a high-level committee of professors and administrators, one fully conscious of its vital role in shaping a Harvard education...
...temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...
...temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...