"Cooper Confessional" depicts Cooper Union's overpaid and visionless President, Jamshed Bharucha, as he confesses his transgression from a historically merit-based full scholarship model, to an expansionist tuition agenda.
Except for a photo taken next to the antiquated "Down With the USA" sign outside the former U.S. embassy, I never sensed any anti-Western animosity (again, which would have been historically merited).
But more efforts are under way, even with resistance from the nation's leading teacher unions, which have historically opposed merit pay programs as unfair and divisive.
Joe Riley, the mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, said the case of the shooter who killed nine people during a prayer service at a historically black church "would merit" the death penalty.
The collaboration with NPS is as important symbolically as it is on its merits because they historically created the idea of protected areas for wildlife conservation that the rest of the world has followed, including non-governmental organizations like ours.
I said that I was also dealing with merit, and I talked about historically, that blacks have been excluded".
Among its many merits, that exhibition brought sculpture, historically supreme as an expressive medium in South Asia, to the fore.
In addition, aid, which has historically been based on need, is increasingly being granted on academic merit.
Historically, the axiom 'the dose makes the poison' has had some merit, so many people remain skeptical about the idea that adverse outcomes can result from minute exposures to commonly encountered chemicals.
This is because such an explanation assumes that Hobby Lobby's complaint can be characterized as "religious exercise" that merits a spot among claims that we have historically accommodated (according to Professor Horwitz).
Only a discerning sense of what's important — artistically and therefore journalistically and even historically — will enable a critic to bring a little-marketed film of great merit to the attention of readers and viewers.
