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Guinier was born in Panama, raised in Jamaica and educated in the Boston public school system. He attended Harvard from 1929-31, but left the University for financial reasons and completed his education at New York City College. He received his master's from Columbia University...
...trustee of Planned Parenthood, but he does select a new Justice whose position is ambiguous enough to generate a mini-outcry from the pro-lifers. Then the former wimp sticks by his man (or woman), stands up to the antiabortion lobby and creates a political triumph that dwarfs even Panama...
Bush shattered records with an 80% public approval rating but won a measly 63% of his first year's legislative initiatives -- a 35-year low for an elected President. He dropped in on 87 U.S. cities, traveled 135,000 miles, won a miniwar in Panama and held three world-moving summits (on Malta with Gorbachev, in Brussels with NATO leaders, in Paris on economics). Records, records -- not for the Guinness book but for the White House...
...Vienna Convention is unambiguous: it says all diplomatic missions, residences, vehicles and personnel are "inviolable" and cannot be interfered with. Yet American forces in Panama persist in violating the treaty's strictures. In addition to mounting an armed surveillance of the Peruvian Ambassador's residence, soldiers demanded to search a car containing Cuba's Ambassador to Panama as he left the Cuban embassy last week. After a 90-minute shouting match, the G.I.s settled for a cursory look inside the vehicle before letting the ambassador drive away...
Such incidents "put in jeopardy American diplomatic missions all over the world," complained Perry Shankle, a former president of the American Foreign Service Association. Meanwhile, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution censuring Washington for allowing soldiers to sift through the Nicaraguan Ambassador's residence in Panama City on Dec. 29. The U.S.'s chief U.N. delegate, Thomas Pickering, called the action an "honest mistake." Perhaps. But one might think that the U.S., whose embassies in Tehran and Islamabad have been sacked, would take more care to avoid such a mistake...