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Considerations of breadth of background among the Board are also stressed by one of this year's candidates, Deval L. Patrick '78, the former assistant attorney general, charged with running the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...
Under pressure, Clinton withdrew his nomination two months later. Deval L. Patrick '78 ultimately replaced Guinier...
Other Harvard dignitaries at the event included: Cornel R. West '74, professor of Afro-American studies; Deval L. Patrick '78, who served in the Justice Department during President Clinton's first term; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American studies; and Angelica Z. Rudenstine, the President's wife...
There is clearly more here than a color-coded difference of opinion. Either the ministers are grossly exaggerating their mistreatment or top Clinton Administration officials are not getting adequate information about their agents' conduct in the field. Deval Patrick, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insists that every lead is being followed. And he notes that in several cases whites with ties to racist groups have been convicted and sent to prison. Indeed, last week a Baptist congregation in South Carolina opened a new front against the terrorists by filing a civil damage suit accusing the Christian Knights...
...Clinton, who only months ago had rushed to accommodate Republican plans to repeal federal affirmative-action programs, now suddenly seems ready to turn and fight. On the eve of what the White House has billed as a defining presidential speech on the issue, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick announced that Clinton would not "be intimidated" by aSupreme Court rulingthat jeopardizes programs that award federal contracts to minority businesses. "The Administration, through the president's speech, is making clear that we favoraffirmative actionwithout hype, without fear and without apology," Patrick said during a minority business summit on Capitol...