Word: reno
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Saturday a huge antigovernment march snaked through Miami. And proving once more how quickly our culture converts everything into entertainment, the creators of the bawdy animated South Park seized on the seizure and remade it for a Thursday-night prime-time audience as witless comedy: a bunny-suited Janet Reno points a rifle at one of the show's characters, who hides fearfully in a closet...
Frankly, I was shocked, because I don't think of myself as bitter about Harvard. But when I set out to be funny, without realizing it I became positively angry. The speech turned out to be as out-of-place at a happy occasion as Janet Reno backstage at a Miami Sound Machine concert...
...Havana, there was a gauntlet of concrete benches, garbage Dumpsters, newspaper boxes, STOP signs, chairs and other objects thrown into the wide streets and burned. "We are peaceful people. We are not violent. Look at what they have turned us into," says Alex Lugo, 34, a math teacher. "Janet Reno is a coward. We want the world to understand that Janet Reno and Fidel Castro have hurt this little...
...liked the idea of handing Fidel Castro a prize. In Havana the reaction was subdued; the government cautioned Cubans that the fight for Elian wasn't over yet. Nevertheless, Fidel thanked Clinton, Reno and "American public opinion." He added, "The child may have cried for five minutes, but at least he's now spared from crying the rest of his life." Cuban TV lost no chance to broadcast images of "the hysterical behavior of Marisleysis... and the desecration of the American flag by the Miami Mafia." Echoing Little Havana's piety, Cuban citizens like Virginia Sotolongo, 42, said, "The Virgin...
CHARLES RAMSEY D.C. police boss gets kudos for handling IMF protests. Should get consulting gig with Reno...