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Sheldon Hackney may be the next Lani Guinier...
...sentences last Friday, Guinier summed up the state of race relations in the U.S.: "We have made real progress toward Martin Luther King's vision of a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not by the color of our skins. But we are not there yet." The truth is we will never be there until every American can answer "Often enough" to Bill Bradley's question, "When was the last time you had a serious discussion about race with a person of a different color?" Advancing racial equality (the single principle on which Clinton...
...Lani Guinier: The views that drew fire...
...Clinton sat down at 7 p.m. in a yellow chair by the fireplace in the Oval Office for his first face-to-face meeting with Guinier since that happy day when he had announced her selection, the President looked more embattled than his nominee did. With deputy communications director Ricki Seidman as the only witness, the meeting turned out to be more emotional, painful and time- consuming than the staff had anticipated. Guinier urged Clinton to go ahead with her Senate hearings; she believed that Senators would judge her as a whole person, not just by her writings, and would...
...rode last week in a helicopter to a housing construction site in Frederick, Maryland, President Clinton pored over a marked-up, highlighted and dog-eared copy of the legal writings of Lani Guinier. It was far too late for him to emerge undamaged from her nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, but he hoped to find that the views of his nominee had been misread. Gradually and reluctantly, he came to the conclusion that even if some of them had been, his beliefs and Guinier's could not be reconciled. When he huddled in late afternoon with...