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...Bernard Nussbaum, a former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House moderates and Senators...
...Justice John Paul Stevens, who pointed out that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act had been adopted specifically because "recalcitrant white majorities could be expected to devise new stratagems to maintain their political power if not closely scrutinized." The court's narrow interpretation of the law, says Lani Guinier, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school, could presage "a very anemic view of political participation in which blacks can vote and even win office, but they can't govern...
...time, Martin L. Kilson, professor of government, called Guinier "an intellectual and academic disgrace," while Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology, left the department...
...Guinier lacks the academic, administrative, and personal qualities for the job of chairman," Patterson said at the time. "Not having an academic or intellectual background, he is extremely insecure in his relations with qualified persons, especially any senior or potentially senior person...
While agreeing that the appointment of Guinier made executive decisions difficult, Hall said that the significance of Guinier's tenure as chair is overstated. "Guinier's tenure in the Afro-Am department may have been problematic, but the constant in the equation [of hiring policy], regardless of who was the chair, was Harvard." Hall says that prospective scholars in the department viewed Harvard's tenure policies suspiciously, and credits Harvard's recent failure to attract Afro-Am professors to the same persistent suspicion...