Mr. Metcalf-Kelly said that if his generation were asked to pick a dorm room to sleep in based on literary merit, many would head for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Dave Eggers slept.
Wednesday looked likely to reach half-time without the goal their play had merited until Bothroyd headed in a long throw from winger Michail Antonio to provide some much-needed cheer for home supporters.
They're currently heading for the final on merit.
Chekhov would have probably kicked ass at heading up a troop, leading his boys to receive the most merit badges ever: the Realistic Dialogue merit badge; the Compassion merit badge; the Most Students Published In the New Yorker merit badge… OK, now I'm just being a dick.
Secondly, there was the little matter of the European Order Of Merit that he now heads after leapfrogging his semi-final victim, Retief Goosen.
Segal was appointed by Governor Scranton to head a merit commission to select nominees for the state court positions.
Despite the echoes of past promises, the new document does represent a shift in policy, says Luc Soete, an expert on innovation who heads UNU-MERIT, a research institute in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
The two-year contract he signed is a tepid endorsement, and the team-in-transition that he was given claims fifth place on merit, and most likely is headed for 90 losses barring something miraculous, like a new pair of legs for Alfonso Soriano or a heart transplant for Aramis Ramirez.
Yet a different analogy merits consideration, particularly as we head into the final Obama-Romney showdown on Monday night.
Nat Pitts, who heads NSF's Office of Integrative Activities and oversees its merit-review system, sees science assistants as a key part of this process.
