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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...
...first impression of Guinier completely wrong? Guinier and her supporters certainly say so. Quotes were taken out of context, her ideas were hacked into soundbites, and everything was made twenty times worse by the media frenzy. Well, this only begs the real question, what should we make of Lani Guinier...
Judging from her recent writings and speeches, I think that Guinier is a provocative yet sensible reformer who is basically on the right track. Her ideas hold out some startlingly refreshing implications, some of which are actually bad news for the multicultural radicals that she was first identified with...
...LANI GUINIER...
...Guinier said she would continue her drive forvoting equality for all citizens...