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...just 36%, a record low for a postwar President four months into his first term, Clinton could not afford the spectacle of last week's Lani Guinier mess. He has begun to stumble with a certain farcical rhythm, this being the third time (after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) he has dropped an esteemed female lawyer he had nominated or considered for a Justice Department post. This time the Administration's relative inaction in the face of opposition to the Guinier nomination allowed the controversy to bloom into full-scale melodrama...
...postmortem assessment of the Guinier episode, many wondered how the Administration could have failed to learn from the Baird and Wood experiences. In the search for someone to blame, some pointed fingers at White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who cleared Guinier as well as the two previous failed candidates. A senior aide said there might have been an assumption that the Clintons were familiar with Guinier's record because she had been a friend of theirs since they had attended Yale Law School together...
...restoring the great hall to its original condition," says Parsons. "Students will dine amidst the golden wood and stained glass of the room, beneath the classical Ruskinidn hammerbean-trusses...
...tried to like it--really, we did. But we've come to a sad conclusion. When it metamorphized into a pizzearla, Tommy's lost all of its atmosphere. Mirrors on the wall? Swiveling stools? fake wood tile Cleanliness Tommy's is supposed to be grimy, not cheesy...
Vincent A. Cortina, project architect from Kallman, McKinnel and Wood, the firm which designed the building, said construction is on schedule...