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...counsel Bernard Nussbaum, a former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House moderates and Senators...
...road again, trying to concentrate more on selling his program and less on everything else. Senior officials have discussed ways to nudge the President to the right in the coming weeks, such as by nominating a moderate Supreme Court Justice, dropping the controversial and probably doomed nomination of Lani Guinier to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights and perhaps even suggesting additional budget cuts. There is also talk of "doing what it takes" to circumvent Clinton's vaunted 25% cut in White House staff. "You have to make adjustments where you can," said one official...
...world where sexual orientation is polarized into heterosexuality and homosexuality, bisexuality comes as a disturbing challenge, at once a riddle and a discomfort. "It threatens rigidity," says Lani Kaahumanu, a bisexual activist in San Francisco. "It threatens both sides of the framework." Bisexuals often inspire nervousness, distaste and hostility in both straights and gays and are all but ignored by scholars...
...other women, bisexuality is a late discovery. "Many never had any sexual attraction to other women," notes psychiatrist Tim Wolf of San Diego. "But now they are in their 30s or 50s, and they fall in love with a particular woman." Lani Kaahumanu was a typical San Mateo, Calif., housewife, wed to her high school sweetheart for 11 years and the mother of two children. With the women's movement of the '70s, "all of a sudden there was this freedom to love women," says Kaahumanu, 48. She divorced and for four years lived what she calls a "very public...
...from Justice John Paul Stevens, who pointed out that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act had been adopted specifically because "recalcitrant white majorities could be expected to devise new stratagems to maintain their political power if not closely scrutinized." The court's narrow interpretation of the law, says Lani Guinier, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school, could presage "a very anemic view of political participation in which blacks can vote and even win office, but they can't govern...