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Perhaps that's why Reno cast a skeptical eye on the case against Lee. Reno's seven years at Justice--she's the longest-serving Attorney General ever--have made her the loneliest woman in Washington. The White House long ago concluded that she is aloof and politically tone-deaf, but those qualities helped her stand out in an Administration that often lacked ethical bearings. Aides admit she has a social worker's soft side that often gets the better of her, as it did in her handling of the Elian Gonzalez case. And congressional Republicans regard...
...solely on the basis of personality and looks (interesting criteria for a trivia show!) but I tried to play the race card. I was like, 'Why should you take me? Dude! There's no Indians on TV! I'm your only hope!' I'm sure my carping fell upon deaf ears. Sigh. Back to the fringe...Justin Timberlake smokes!...Heard the other day between two girls in line for registration: "Did you know JTT is here? I saw him in the Yard." "I had a big crush on him when he was in Free Willy." Hmm...In the Know...
...slipped into him on an icy Vitina street. The soldier then "head-butted" the man with his Kevlar helmet, bloodying his nose, before Ronghi walloped him "with great force" in the head, leaving him dazed. The man, the Army report said, was later discovered to be deaf-mute. In another case, a U.S. soldier used his machine gun to pin a man against a wall who seemed unwilling to answer questions; he was later found to be deaf...
...endings. We would like to do the same here, and so we return to the real Pennie Lane. "I'm putting it together now," she says. "It's gonna be a retirement home called the Raisin Ranch for aging rock stars and wayward groupies. We're all gonna be deaf because we didn't wear earplugs. So where are we gonna go? I'm on it." She needn't worry. Thanks to Almost Famous, Lane--and the music she loved--will live forever in their prime...
...Perhaps that's why Reno cast a skeptical eye on the case against Lee. Reno's seven years at Justice - she's the longest-serving Attorney General ever - have made her the loneliest woman in Washington. The White House long ago concluded that she is aloof and politically tone-deaf, but those qualities helped her stand out in an administration that often lacked ethical bearings. Aides admit she has a social worker's soft side that often gets the better of her, as it did in her handling of the Elian Gonzalez case. And congressional Republicans regard...