Word: reno
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...keeping up with current events, flipped off Tom Brokaw's special afternoon update in favor of the highly intellectual Fox show "Real TV." Seeing a 300-pound Marlin pull a man out of his fishing boat definitely felt more important to watch at that point than anything Janet Reno could have done or said with the family. This settled the issue for me; the media has drastically over-covered this event...
...Learjet at Dulles at dawn with his new wife and baby at his side, he would fall to the ground, kiss the tarmac and ask for asylum. Or maybe it would happen Friday morning, safe in the halls of the Justice Department, when he would look Attorney General Janet Reno in the eye and say thanks for all the help, but can we please just stay here? Then he could arrive in Miami in triumph, the angry vigil outside Great-Uncle Lazaro's house would turn into a carnival, father and son would be reunited at last, and all would...
...apparently proved it to Reno, who talked with him, in the absence of any Cuban officials, for more than an hour Friday morning. She wanted to see for herself: Was he really a loving father--and did he really, truly want to raise his child in a country where milk is rationed for children over 7 and soldiers drown citizens who try to flee? On the way over in the car, Juan Miguel's lawyer Greg Craig told him outright, "You are meeting with the highest law-enforcement officials in the land. It is an entirely private meeting...
When they met at last, face to face, Reno urged Juan Miguel to sit down with his Miami relatives and try to work things out. But it's too late for that, he said. There is too much anger and pain. He showed Reno his baby pictures of Elian and talked about their closeness. She told him, in Spanish, "It seems that Elian is a wonderful, bright and charming little boy. You and your wife did good work." Replied Juan Miguel: "All of the goodness you see is the goodness that comes from how we raised...
...planning to circulate a petition to Attorney General Janet Reno at next week's ARCO Forum event about civil rights and national security. They said they will meet early next week to consider organizing a rally...