The disappointing showing of Italy's Democratic Party is merited, yet somewhat unfair.
These innovative uses of the social graph are, in Mr Zuckerberg's mind, the precise analogy to the trade routes that were found once the ancient mapmakers had done their part.The cartographer of human connectionsClever though this is, the comparisons to Mr Jobs and Google are not merited yet.
All these changes may well have merit, yet need to be acknowledged more openly and vigorously discussed.
If it is used as a get-out-of-jail card (no pun intended) because of a legal issue, because his feet are to the fire, or for some similar reason, then this is not an honest enough and thoughtful enough foundation to merit yet another go-round.
Art historian Cornelius Vermeule, in his work on US coins, took a more positive view of Barber's coinage, "the last word as to their aesthetic merits has yet to be written.
So we're back, discussing the merits of yet another film for the moviegoing public, and I just have one question, yes or no: "The Favourite" is easily the feel-good movie on the year?
Under the provision, the leader of the federal department that has authority over the sensitive matter must evoke the privilege and a court must rule whether the claim has merit -- yet do so without forcing a disclosure of the very thing the privilege is meant to protect.
They all do, however, share a decidedly Western orientation in style, outlook, methodology, and more; seldom are things viewed from the Chinese perspective, and consequently charges of a Eurocentric bias in Chinese philosophy as a field of study are unfortunately not without merit, increasing yet again the problems of interpreting them appropriately.
So we have the Gosselins, Paris Hilton, the balloon boy hoax family, and most recently the White House gate crashers who have done nothing to merit fame, yet are famous.
