Word: kirsanow
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...great,” said Karola O. Kirsanow, a member of the class. “I’m a first-year graduate student, and this was basically my introduction to Harvard...
...latest ruckus involves the makeup of the commission itself. The dispute centers around Peter Kirsanow, an intense Cleveland labor lawyer with a smooth-shaven head and Salvador Dali moustache. In December George Bush appointed Kirsanow, the former head of the conservative Center for New Black Leadership, to fill the seat of Victoria Wilson, a liberal former book publisher who is best known for editing the vampire novels of Anne Rice. The move threatened liberal Mary Frances Berry's control of the commission: with Wilson seated, there are five liberals and three conservatives; Kirsanow would even the votes at four each...
...commissioners full six-year terms. She also charges Bush is trying to muzzle the commission in response to its Florida election report, which accused Jeb Bush of being "grossly derelict" in enforcing the law. In December Berry told the Justice Department it would take federal marshals to seat Kirsanow. Last week a federal judge sided with Berry; the Justice Department is appealing...
...After 22 years on the panel, Berry is undeterred. "We don't serve the pundits in Washington," she says. "We serve the under-represented, the disenfranchised. They tell us we're still needed." Kirsanow thinks so, too. That's why he says he'll continue to fight for his seat. "There are very important issues that still need to be addressed," he says. "In the end, I do believe we all want the same thing...
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