Word: reno
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They're sworn to protect the President; now Janet Reno is set to step into the ring to protect them from testifying. The Secret Service got a boost late Monday when the Justice Department filed a brief notice of intent to appeal last month's ruling from Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, which compelled Secret Service agents to testify in Ken Starr's Lewinsky probe. While that doesn't guarantee a DOJ appeal, it does leave the door open for Reno to challenge her own independent counsel in the courts...
...While that would fly in the face of unanimous advice from the AG's four predecessors, Reno is more likely to listen to Secret Service director Lewis Merletti -- who has vowed to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. Merletti, who has spent the last few months issuing dark warnings of a future presidential assassination if Starr gets his way, wants to create a new kind of executive privilege for his agents. Another privilege battle -- just what Starr needs right...
Until the final breakdown Saturday afternoon, it looked for a couple of days last week as if Bill Gates just might have found a way to slip out of this one relatively unscathed. Early Thursday morning, with only hours left before the press conference at which Attorney General Janet Reno and her antitrust chief Joel Klein were to announce one of the largest and most important antitrust cases in American history, Gates demonstrated the cold-blooded brinkmanship for which he is famous: with no time left on the clock, he suddenly made nice. O.K., he told Klein: Let's talk...
...antitrust suits by the Federal Government and some 20 states--were delayed until at least Monday to give the lawyers time to either find their way to common legal ground or determine that no such territory exists. By Saturday afternoon, though, it was clear that--probably by early Monday--Reno's press conference would almost surely be taking place after...
...monster, the new plot is somewhat less revolutionary. As in 1954, Godzilla is the spawn of nuclear tests in the Pacific, and this time he makes his way quickly to New York City. Matthew Broderick plays an American scientist, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (a nod to the new creator); Jean Reno is a mysterious agent for the French; Maria Pitillo is a newscaster wannabe; and Hank Azaria is a TV cameraman. Together they battle not just Godzilla but a teeming snake pit of little Godzillas. Though referred to as "he," the monster belongs to transgender studies, reproducing by parthenogenesis. How does...