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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...
...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...
Americans want their president to stand for something and be willing to fight for it--qualities Clinton has not yet demonstrated adequately (witness Lani Guinier, Bosnia, Haiti and the unsatisfactorily-resolved issue of gays in the military). But it will suffice if Clinton stands for health security and affordability; he need not stand for anything as specific as health alliances, insurance pools or price ceilings...
...case of Lani Guinier is slightly different. Her writings, far from being overly vivid, were downright obtuse. But in them she presented some novel ideas for minority representation in a democracy. When Clinton killed her nomination for head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, Guinier warned against "a new intellectual orthodoxy, in which thoughtful people can no longer debate provocative ideas without denying the country their talents as public servants...