Word: meriting
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...Society of Publication Designers gave their highest honor, the Gold Medal for Excellence, to Arthur Hochstein and Cynthia Hoffman for their work on the Best Photos of 2003 issue. We also won two silver medals and seven merit awards that recognized the work of, among others, D.W. Pine, Thomas Miller, Marti Golon and Christine Dunleavy, along with picture editors Marie Tobias and Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz. Time.com led by Joshua Macht, won first place in Web photojournalism from the National Press Photographers Association for the site's Iraq coverage, most notably its feature "21 Days to Baghdad...
...vanguard of thinking about education. For instance, the discussion of arts in the curriculum runs a mere page and culminates in only one suggestion: that the dean of the humanities look at the arts. The lifeless section seems to conclude that performance and artistic endeavors lack academic merit, a view which is falling out of favor at most colleges nationwide. Thankfully, administrators were smart enough to cut one seemingly disparaging and nonsensical sentence that found its way into the confidential draft version of the report sent to all review participants last Thursday: “Fragmentation and inconsistency across...
...think that there’s a lot of merit in it, although it will have an impact on a number of tutorial programs. There will be some growing pains there,” he said...
There may be other options. Kal Chany, who wrote Paying for College Without Going Broke, notes that some schools, like Boston University, specifically offer merit grants for students with little financial need, and some are more sensitive to the issues of recently blended families...
...denizens legal title to their homes and businesses. That would grant them access to bank credit and investment capital, much as the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries enriched Western Europe and North America. A limited experiment in Peru in the 1990s proved the idea had merit when it brought in more than $1 billion in new tax revenue. Some 30 heads of state, from Egypt to Mexico, have hired de Soto for similar projects. "I think our time has come," says de Soto. "Four billion people exist outside the market, where angry folks like Osama...