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...National Journal called Boehlert the Green Hornet for his efforts to make government care about the environment, sometimes contrary to the G.O.P. agenda. But the battleground in this race may be the economy. The 23rd District lost 1,400 jobs when Griffiss Air Force Base was scaled back in 1993, and Boehlert is pushing to make the Rome Laboratory a National Law Enforcement Technology Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NEW YORK | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

George Clooney must look good in a mask too. The ER star's about to sign on to play the Green Hornet, grandnephew of the Lone Ranger, who also runs around fighting crime in disguise. Clooney will get $3 million for the role, according to Variety. Jason Scott Lee is in talks to play sidekick Kato (no relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1995 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...flir [forward-looking infrared sys tem ] because I can watch for triple-A [anti-aircraft artillery] and other things as my whizzo [weapons system officer] holds the laser on the target all the way in." U.S. Marine Captain Erik Swenson, speaking here, is the pilot of an F/A-18 Hornet (call sign: "Lumpy"), and he could hardly be more different from a Sarajevo shopkeeper. But he and Ferid Durakovic are intimately linked. Starting last Wednesday morning, Captain Swenson-in his first taste of combat-and dozens of other nato pilots began bombing the Serbs in retaliation for the massacre Durakovic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO AND THE BALKANS: LOUDER THAN WORDS | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

Being popular isn't the same thing as being known. Or is it? KATO KAELIN, who appears in next month's GQ dressed as Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick, to embody "The Cheesing of America," is still enjoying his protracted 15 minutes. Particularly, he says, after a recent incident in which 30 girls cornered him and "asked me to sign their breasts." FROM HAUTE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1995 | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...they had to do was call up their buddies in the real-estate industry to get their money," Lee said. "The real estate industry has stirred up a hornet's nest. Their greed and selfishness really blinded them to what they were doing...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Ballot Initiative Abolishes Rent Control | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

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