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...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...
...Richard Zoglin, for anyone who cares about TV news, the book is fascinating. "The growth of Nightline paralleled the development of satellite broadcasting; by linking newsmakers worldwide, the show could not only report on, but often become a participant in, major news events. 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 by it." If the book lacks larger consideration of Nightline's place in the TV news universe, it does offer a fine appreciation of Koppel's interviewing technique. A highlight...
...what have her many political predecessors done when their own suspicion rapidly flowed into guilt? They resigned. Political officials who have found themselves in a quagmire similar to that of Mrs. Clinton got out of office. Gary Hart, Zoe Baird, Lani Guinier--a diverse handful of politicians who withdrew from the spotlight in which they were being stripped of their political integrity. Our political system makes it too ugly for them to suck it up and stick it out. They need to get out quickly and unscathed. For the politicians who came before Mrs. Clinton, exit was the most common...