Word: meriting
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...Harvard have no reason or right to resist the fact that just as there are better and worse schools, there are smarter and dumber kids, and the smarter ones belong in the better schools. Rather than a lottery system, President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton should advocate a merit criterion to determine which students would make the best use of private-school educational opportunities...
...that is the failing American public school would be to reward the very system that has failed us. In Chicago, 46 percent of the children of public school teachers and administrators attend private schools. The people who know the public school system best have no faith in its merit...
...unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back in 1966, his wife Rita had had a vision of stigmata on the palms of Haile Selassie and had begun to tutor Bob in Rastafari...
Young investigated Black guard StevenThompson's complaint last year and found it to bewithout merit...
...present, Harvard's financial aid system is fair. The University offers non-monetary merit scholarships, and it does not give out special monetary awards. If Harvard started giving out race-based scholarships, it would face a much more complicated ethical dilemma...