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|Paulina Letitia is a stern, no-nonsense woman.  When we first met to begin an interview for this article, she insisted that the meeting take place in her office, that it last no longer than half an hour, and that she ''would'' be eating her lunch during it, as she "didn't have time to be wasting on frivolity."  Her lunch was as austere as her office - tuna on salad greens, a diet coke, a Hostess cake.  She bid me to begin asking the questions at once, didn't care for any chit-chat. She wanted me to sit, get my job done, and get out.

|She was 27 when ''Milliken v. Bradley'' was decided.  "It was like that, in those days. Two steps forward, one step back."  She marched to Montgomery with MLK in '65 at the age of 18.  To hear, 9 years later, that ''Brown v. Board of Education'' was being partially overturned made her furious.  Furious enough to attend college.