Word: meriting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard women know there are many times we do not feel safe walking around at night. After last week’s assault—the fifth of this semester—we are again cruelly reminded that our fears are not unjustified paranoia. They do indeed hold merit...
...force. His ability to convey this mystical vision of a great, united, democratic India to his poor countrymen gave him a sway over their loyalties that no Prime Minister has duplicated: they swept him into power three times. Although often indecisive and too willing to trust aides of dubious merit, Nehru never lost the gift of inspiring his fellow Indians. The phrase he used to describe his nation's independence-it was, he said, India's "tryst with destiny"-still haunts his countrymen with a sense of their potential for greatness; the speech in which he used the phrase...
Kavulla’s critique of the committee’s foundation courses is also without merit as he neglected to fully investigate the fact that students are engaged in grappling with the tensions that have been a part of feminist theory since its inception. Students are constantly examining the core questions that underpin feminist theory: how to define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with...
...That Kavulla failed to represent any of this in his simplified caricature of women’s studies is a disservice to members of the community who have not yet taken a course in women’s studies and who take Kavulla’s representation to have merit...
...Yale 24, Harvard 17. One word explanation: merit...