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After the thrashing she took on editorial pages last year as a multicultural extremist and a "quota queen," it seems that Lani Guinier '71 is coming back with a vengeance. In addition to her long-held tenured professorship at Penn law school, she's been hot on the lecture circuit, she's published her first book and her ideas are now given serious consideration as potential solutions to current voting rights problems. "Call it Lani Guinier's Revenge," says The New York Times. What's more, she's been invited to speak at Harvard as this year's Class...
...financial community and thereby helping overcome disasters ranging from the crash of '87 to the near collapse of the banking industry when it was saddled in the late 1980s with bad real estate loans. Notwithstanding his bookish appearance, Greenspan has long been a fixture on the Washington cocktail circuit, where he has squired such high- profile and politically connected companions as ABC newswoman Barbara Walters and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell...
Nixon was right on the first count -- the only criticism of Blackmun at his confirmation hearings was that the Eighth Circuit judge worked too hard -- but wrong on the second. By the time "Old No. 3," as Blackmun called himself, announced his retirement last week, he had become the court's most reliable liberal voice. "This is a guy who came to the court thinking it was the role of the court to defer to government," says Yale law professor Harold Koh. But as Blackmun read the cases, he realized not all government was good. Only when a Democrat...
Such a scenario is what prompted the New York Stock Exchange in 1988 to add circuit breakers that temporarily halt automated transactions when the Dow Jones average rises or falls more than 50 points in a day. But even if the mechanisms work temporarily, some experts caution that all the computerized derivatives and other vehicles that Wall Street has developed since the Crash of '87 could keep shell-shocked buyers from returning to the market, out of fear of a new wave of selling. "A circuit breaker shuts off the overload," says Bruce Greenwald, a finance professor at the Columbia...
...pursue music after graduation. Fat Day,for instance, plans to tour the U.S. this summer.LeVine, who runs the Quad Sound Studio, says, "IfI don't get involved in the music industry thoughthe band, I will through recording." GeretyFinnian Moore '96 (known simply as Finn) hasalready played the professional circuit as leadsinger last year for Lolita, a successfulBoston-area band. However, He enjoys playing withhis current Harvard group, tentatively calledPushkings, more. "I never got to be friends with(the other members of Lolita) because they weremuch older than I, " he notes, adding, "I'mfinally playing the kinds of music I like...