Word: lany
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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...
...only report on but often become a participant in major news events. Nightline aired groundbreaking debates about South African apartheid and the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, the organizing of which were diplomatic feats almost as impressive as those later achieved at bargaining tables. Controversial figures, from Ferdinand Marcos to Lani Guinier, used the show as a platform to defend themselves; others, like former baseball executive Al Campanis, were undone...