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...Reno, Nev., does not immediately come to mind as home base for a mindfulness guru, but Hayes has taught at the University of Nevada campus in Reno for 20 years. Driving to his house took me past a number of sad old casinos where you can find haggard gamblers trying their luck at 6 a.m., the lights from the slots lambent in their expressionless eyes...
...huge chunk of marble fell off the Supreme Court building. Thank God Janet Reno was there and made a one-handed catch." --DAVID LETTERMAN...
...quavering baritone attested to a life of bitter experience. In those ballads of hard traveling, careless love and felonious assault, the words he sang were places he'd been, got hurt in and learned from. That startling line in ?Folsom Prison Blues? - ?I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die? - is followed by ?When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry.? First the bad-man boast, then the sinner's remorse...
...decent programming into it. Biosphere II might be a good place to lock away all those fun couples -- Burt and Loni, John and Lorena, Ted and Whoopi -- until they sort things out. But this is science fiction, mere dreamery. Art doesn't solve problems any more than (pace Janet Reno) it creates them. What art does, or did this year, is review those thorny issues in the past tense. So much of 1993's art amounted to a gigantic act of pained remembrance. Experience the Holocaust, in a museum or a movie. Look clearly at Jack Kennedy, or recycle Teddy...
...York, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, has called for hearings as well. But so far the committee's Democratic chairman, Donald Riegle of Michigan, has said he would rather let the Justice Department's investigation run its course. In the same vein, Attorney General Janet Reno rejected calls last week for her to appoint a special counsel to take over her department's investigations into Guaranty. She explained that since anyone appointed by her would still be seen as her operative, it would be better for experienced department investigators to carry on. With Reno's blessing, Justice officials...