Word: lany
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...little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher; and his Cabinet contains more millionaires per capita than either Reagan's or Bush...
Having botched Lani Guinier's nomination, the Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated...
...dust himself off and get started again, he finds a new hole in the floor to fall through. With an approval rating of just 36%, a record low for a postwar President four months into his first term, Clinton could not afford the spectacle of last week's Lani Guinier mess. He has begun to stumble with a certain farcical rhythm, this being the third time (after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) he has dropped an esteemed female lawyer he had nominated or considered for a Justice Department post. This time the Administration's relative inaction in the face...
...General Drew Days and legislative liaison Howard Paster) to suggest that she withdraw voluntarily, but she refused. Sensing she would never get her hearing before the Senate, she launched a media blitz that left the Clinton team stunned and ( angry with her for failing to be a team player. "Lani was not going to pull herself out," says an Administration official, adding pointedly, "It's the M.O. of the civil-rights movement that they are not satisfied until they can go out, declare defeat and say, 'We got screwed.' That's what they wanted. That's what they...
...LANI GUINIER...