Word: guiniers
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Clinton withdrew his nomination of Lani C. Guinier '71, a colleague of Patrick's at the NAACP, to the post in June because of widespread criticism of her legal writings...
...statement made yesterday, Guinier praised Clinton's nomination of Patrick to the position, and urged the president to provide "leadership in defining his civil rights agenda...
...inevitable year-end appraisals of Clinton's first year hit the newsstands and airwaves this month, the President is unlikely to get many glowing reviews. His first few months were probably the rockiest of any modern administration. Clinton's handling of gays in the military, Nannygate, and the Lani Guinier fiasco left much to be desired. But the same news media that made an issue of Christophe's visit to Air Force One has now conspired to produce an unbalanced perspective on his first year. Conservatives will complain that he's too liberal. Left wingers will say he hasn...
Proportional representation and other systems (another one is known as cumulative voting) that differ from the traditional two-party, one-person, one-vote system were the focus of intense scrutiny last spring in connection with President Clinton's nomination of University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Lani Guinier to a civil rights job in the Justice Department...
...Guinier, who grew up in Cambridge, had written controversial law review articles exploring the possibilities for election reform...