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Christopher Edley, Harvard Law professor and head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' investigation into the Florida election, highlighted the abuses found by the commission...
...Florida, so many people dipping their toes in the voting process for possibly the first time found that it is not always a pleasant process," Edley said...
...panelists saw the failure of the Democratic Party in Florida to engage the African-American voters as an example of the party's failure nationwide to properly represent minority communities. Edley spoke of the Democratic Party's fear of "racializing" issues...
...ideas, holding information against theory and gauging how the two fit. "When working on international economics, Gore will think about everything from business-management theory to chemical thermodynamics to financial-market theory, all in the space of a 20-minute speech-preparation meeting," says Harvard law professor Christopher Edley, an occasional adviser. Gore studies an issue until he can argue all sides with such certainty that aides sometimes have no idea which one he will ultimately take. But then the Vice President reaches what Leon Fuerth, his longtime foreign policy adviser, calls a "firing point." The meetings get smaller, shorter...
...Clinton] is destined to continue to play a significant role on the world stage--from domestic issues like health care and race relations, to international issues like AIDS, human rights and peace," says Christopher F. Edley Jr., a Harvard Law School professor and Clinton adviser. "Fundraising for undergraduate athletic facilities would be easy for him, but hardly fulfilling...