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Radical or not, Guinier's writing is tailor-made to be selectively used against her. Conservative groups and other critics circulated copies of her writings to news organizations, highlighting portions that were purported to take far-out positions. In her appearance on Nightline, Guinier argued that the quoted passages were out of context. She insisted that she was giving "a description of other people's views" in the Michigan article when she contended that "authentic leaders are those elected by black voters," thereby suggesting that black politicians elected by white majorities are not legitimate. Even in context, it is unclear...
...also true that what "worked" for thousands of years may not be the best way of doing things. Democracy, after all, was once a far-out, subversive notion, condemned by kings and priests. In our own country, it took all kinds of hell-raising, including a war, to get across the simple notion that no person is morally entitled to own another. One generation's hallowed tradition -- slavery, or the divine right of kings -- may be another generation's object lesson in human folly...
...mama-san at the Club 48, used to keep an employee at the phone all night doing nothing but summoning hard-to-get taxis. Now cabs can be hailed by stepping out the door, but penny-pinching customers prefer to take trains -- and since the last ones leave for far-out suburbs around midnight, the club is emptying out early...
TARGETING young Black inner-city males with a baseball-oriented social program is not a far-out idea from left field...
...picking up delegates from states where he is not on the ballot. One is to win over delegates who are officially running as uncommitted. Cuomo's admirers have already entered a technically uncommitted but actually pro-Cuomo slate in the Illinois primary March 17. The most far-out scenario is a postprimary draft; it seems so reminiscent of the boss-ridden days as to be almost unimaginable...