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...Justice Department is looking into whether the Chinese Embassy was used as a planning center for foreign contributions to the Democratic National Committee. While details of the investigation remain sketchy, a "well-placed" source close to the probe reports that foreign counterintelligence considerations could prompt Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to look into Democratic campaign finance, reports The Washington Post. Reno has previously refused to appoint a counsel, citing the lack of evidence showing wrongdoing among high-level executive branch officials. Although a Chinese Embassy spokesman denies that China ever meddled in overseas contributions...
...stabbed to death during the 1991 Crown Heights race riots. Although a sentence has not yet been handed down, Lemnick Nelson, 20, and Charles Price, 43, face life in prison. After a mostly black jury acquitted Nelson and Price in an earlier state criminal trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic Jew, was randomly attacked on the street as black mobs ran amok a few hours after a fatal car accident involving a 7-year...
Franken, though, seemed to have ignored the suggestion. The self-proclaimed "mushball Democrat" took several jabs at the Clinton administration (he quipped that Attorney General Janet Reno was offering lap dances for $20 at various Inaugural balls) but spent most of his time skewering high-profile Republicans...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Republicans are sending a letter to Janet Reno asking for an investigation into who taped an embarrassing phone call in which Newt Gingrich appears to have violated an agreement with the House ethics committee, and released a transcript of the conversation to the New York Times. According to the Times, the call was taped by a Florida couple who picked up the call on a police scanner, apparently because at least one of the parties in the conversation was using a cell phone. The Times story showed that on December 21, the same day he admitted to making...
...that Albright's "every move" will be subject to gender-based critique is hysterical and unjustified. While Albright will undoubtedly have to shatter gender stereotypes, her actions as U.N. ambassador were usually interpreted fairly. Furthermore, most recent portrayals of women in unprecedented positions of power, from Margaret Thatcher to Janet Reno, have been free of patriarchal prejudice...