Word: guiniers
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Another example of the intensive scrutiny that black politicians face is the tragic character assassination leveled against Lani Guinier, after President Clinton nominated her to be the deputy attorney general for civil rights. Because of controversial articles about alternative voting systems that she wrote in law school, she was dubbed a "quota queen," and her nomination was sabotaged...
...also don't want to imply cronyism. According to a newspaper item I read, Williams, who was close to Bill Clinton when the Clintons lived in Fayetteville many years ago, could now be described more accurately as an acquaintance than a friend--although, as Lani Guinier and Harold Ickes could testify, that seems to be true of everyone the President knows...
...demands for women of color on the faculty may be satisfied if noted black legal scholar and University of Pennsylvania professor C. Lani Guinier '71 accepts her outstanding offer from the Law School, Friedman said...
However, a senior Clinton aide says of the President, "He gets it now. He knows what people want. After the election, he is not going to suddenly veer left and start proposing big Old Democrat solutions. Joycelyn Elders is not coming back, O.K.? No Lani Guinier." Moreover, given a continuing effort to balance the budget and the certainty that Republicans will retain a powerful voice in Congress--possibly still a majority--there will be neither money nor votes for any grandiose schemes...
While headlines were monopolized by the gays-in-the-military uproar and the aborted nominations of Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood and Guinier, Clinton was putting together a tough economic program. It meant scrapping most of his proposed investments and the middle-class tax cut. It meant proposing new taxes, which outraged Republicans, and spending cuts, which troubled some Democrats. It meant braving the warnings of deficit hawks that higher taxes and less spending would lead to stagnation or recession, and following the advice of Republican Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who insisted that a credible deficit-reduction...