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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom line is that Harvard is about achievement, about excellence. This College only admits individuals who have demonstrated exceptional abilities to achieve and excel. Unlike Harvard's office of Admissions, Mr. Lat still labors under the antiquated notion that such abilities are purely quantifiable. Would he dare suggest that MIT is a superior institution because its SAT average is usually higher than Harvard's? I hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat Denigrates Blacks, Latinos | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...notion of "the rules of war" has always vexed me. At a time when people are doing their concerted best to shed enemy blood, to exterminate life, how can an accord signed long ago by some diplomats in Switzerland hold any weight...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Rise of the Bourgeois Spy | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

With their minds thus concentrated, one thought dominated all those at the meeting: how to throw a knockout punch that would be, as one of them put it, a "Diller-killer." The notion of tossing in more cash or stock was quickly nixed as too costly. So were bigger warrants and increased dividends. After several such options were rejected, Greenhill turned to one of his whiz-kid investment-banking strategists, Michael Levitt, 35, who described a scheme he said would blow away Diller. The novel plan called for issuing a type of security, called a contingent value right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deal That Forced Diller to Fold | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. The pact aimed at trimming Japan's trade surplus with the U.S., which has jumped to a near record $60 billion. Last summer's agreement called for "objective criteria" for measuring progress, and the sticking point ever since has been each side's differing notion of what objective criteria may be. To the White House, the term refers to numerical targets by which to measure the openness of Japanese markets -- the ratio of imports to total GNP is one gauge the U.S. has discussed. The Japanese scorn that approach as "managed trade," saying it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton to Tokyo: No Deal | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...describing the gay membership of AFARM solely in terms of what he imagines to be their bedroom behavior, Lat caters to the bigoted notion that homosexuality is a purely libidinal matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat Accepts Gay Stereotypes | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

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