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...recognize that the conflict is now a part of the past. The war's resolution has not brought lasting peace and stability to Iraq, to say nothing of the Middle East as a region. The question the American people are justified in asking General Powell is (to borrow from Janet Jackson): What have you done for us lately...
...This is something that's been considered off and on for quite some time," Janet I. Thompson, manager of UHS insurance programs, said at the time. "There was a need to provide preventive dental care. We were seeing something that if it had been treated sooner wouldn't have been very costly...
...scene from Psycho is a grisly shudder in the collective unconscious, as bracing as Janet Leigh's famous shower and possibly even more shocking. The detective, played by Martin Balsam, is climbing the stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos...
...least in part to counter defense arguments that the government chose McVeigh and Nichols as scapegoats without exhausting the possibility of finding a broader conspiracy--a contention that McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, is already pressing. The government is continuing to look for possible accomplices, but, said Attorney General Janet Reno, "most of these leads have been pursued and exhausted." Investigators generally think that if any additional plotters do turn up, there will be only a few and they will prove to be mere "facilitators." In particular, some investigators have come to doubt that the far-famed John...
Amid continued partisan sniping, the House hearings on the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...