In '86, he might have sought a company car and a new business merit bonus to go along with Sterling's high-profile office.
"He recently won a tournament [the Gee Bee event in Finland], where he boxed superbly and beat some very good quality opponents, and merits the opportunity to go to the qualifier".
"I had my game face on, my poker face," said Kwan, who received marks ranging from 5.5 to 5.9 for technical merit and one 6.0 to go with 5.8's and 5.9's for presentation.
The ruling by Judge Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, rejected the Justice Department's claim — first asserted by the Bush administration and continued under President Obama — that the charity's lawsuit should be dismissed without a ruling on the merits because allowing it to go forward could reveal state secrets.
"In the end it had to go on merit," said Craig.
That the federation apparently believed the accusations had enough merit -- or wanted them to go away badly enough -- that they would ask the coach to resign, but only after the Olympics, just adds another layer of hypocrisy.
The AP's beef against AHN appears to have more merit than when it tried to go after bloggers for merely linking to its stories without changing the headlines.
Could it be that the politicization of the judicial nominating process, with ideological purity now perhaps more important than professional merit, has led more judges to go to the bench in pursuit of ideological agendas?
US district judge Thelton Henderson did not rule on the case's merits and allowed the lawsuit to go forward, noting: "This is not a case where the alleged deception is simply implausible as a matter of law.
They consider the relative merits of getting a taxi to go through McDonald's drive-thru on the way home, but then they remember the breakfast menu is the worst thing on the planet.
