Word: meriting
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British sociology is not without merit. To name even a few scholars makes the point: Ronald Dore (at Harvard recently), John Goldthrope and Anthony Giddens (consistently sought, I have been informed, by the sociologists here), Ernest Gellner (this year's Tanner lecturer at Harvard), Michael Mann and Duncan Gallie (recent winners of America's most prestigous sociology prize...
...Here is a man of great intellectual [merit],"said David Riesman '31, Ford professor of socialsciences emeritus and long-time Harvard facultywatcher. "Some men of that temper discover totheir astonishment that they like raising money.This doesn't seem to be Mike Spence...
There is nothing wrong with a gradual reduction of American forces in response to the Soviet eclipse. There may even be some merit to skipping one generation of weapons and investing instead in research and development of the next generation (as suggested by former Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle). Both of these approaches, however, rest on the premise that the U.S. must maintain a large, technologically advanced, worldwide military force. The logic of the peace dividend is the opposite: now that the cold war is won, it is time to demobilize...
...decide for yourself. For this week, however, the news unquestionably concerns the Right. I managed to procure (by stepping on it on my way out the door to breakfast) the first edition of Peninsula, the new Very Very Conservative campus journal. A couple of salient points about the magazine merit attention...
...hallways. "We were talking the other day about etiquette," says World editor Jim Kelly, "when Bruce remarked that there is only one thing that you can remove from your mouth and set on your plate while dining with the Queen of England. Bird shot." That ought to merit at least a $500 question on Jeopardy...