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...loan guarantees from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a multimillion dollar diamond deal in Angola. After the meeting, a sympathetic Lake decided to intervene: he directed an NSC staff member, with approval from legal counsel, to call Ex-Im and OPIC. The message: Templesman's venture had "merit." But TIME has obtained the text of a recent letter from Angola's ambassador in Washington that bluntly asks the U.S. to stop attempts to broker a diamond deal and, in an apparent reference to Tempelsman, criticizes similiar attempts by "private companies." The Angolan letter, as well as Administration maneuvers...
Although critics have diverged greatly in their estimations of the literary merit of Burroughs' non-traditional work, the author was an important influence for fellow beats Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who met Burroughs while he was living in New York in the 1940s...
Gell said earning the Freund Prize is not completely based on merit...
...desire are driven underground," Wolf vaguely explains in the grad-school-speak that characterizes her writing, "harm is done to the psyche." Wolf's solution is that women should be more vocal about their sexual histories and yearnings. However, she does not thoughtfully address what the sociological or cultural merit of such venting would be in a climate already teeming with daytime talk shows, hyped authors of best-selling incest memoirs, and Alanis Morissette...
...Universities of California and Texas dropped to 1963 levels once those schools were "ordered not to consider the race of their applicants" [Nation, June 2]. This development suggests that the real problem for minorities is getting a proper education so they can gain admission to college based on merit. The difference in the quality of education prior to college is the fundamental problem that affirmative action is neglecting...