Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's how Melinda Schuler ended up on Black's operating table at the UCLA Medical Center. (This past summer Black became director of a new neurosurgery institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, also in Los Angeles.) The neurosurgeon in Reno, Nev., who performed the original biopsy would not touch the tumor, which was sitting right in the middle of her motor area. He could have taken it out but feared that Schuler would be left paralyzed. "Most of the tumors I see are like this," Black says in his soft Southern voice...
...Clinton, the mere prospect of an investigation means a serious deepening of his permanent state of legal siege. If Reno eventually calls for an independent counsel, this one would be the first to investigate Clinton himself, not just a member of his Cabinet or a wide-ranging mess like Whitewater that may or may not center on him. And unlike the Whitewater probe, with its endless sifting of a land deal that started in the days of sideburns and bell-bottoms, this one would be investigating actions that Clinton undertook while President...
...battered, isolated Reno, all of this means a collision course with a President who brought her to Washington, then kept her at arm's length. Ever since April, when she declined a Republican request to appoint an independent prosecutor, she has lived and worked under a question: Was she merely protecting the President? By last week some Republicans in Congress were even suggesting that she should be impeached for not naming one. This kind of attention has been hard for Reno, who is so touchy about ethical appearances that she bought her car at list price so no one could...
What prompted Reno to act was an analysis from the Justice-FBI campaign task force that landed on her desk in the second week of September. Alerted by the Post story on Gore's telephone solicitations, the task force decided to compare Clinton's phone logs with "call sheets"--memos drawn up by the Democratic National Committee to suggest telephone talking points with donors--and records of the Federal Election Commission that show where the money went. It discovered about a dozen links that look suspicious: call sheets preceding donations that landed partly in hard accounts. Staff members...
...while, the obvious distance between Clinton and Reno worked in his favor, if only because it was hard to believe she would betray her principles to shield a President to whom she didn't seem much attached. But her public vote of no confidence in her task force's probe makes it harder now for her to argue that a special counsel isn't necessary, despite her latest effort to whip the team into shape. Washington was surprised in March when Reno chose Laura Ingersoll, a lower-echelon prosecutor in the department's public-integrity section, to head the politically...