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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent survey by the Mason-Dixon firm, with only 7% undecided. Reno enjoys a reputation as a principled leader who does what she thinks is right. But at the same time she bears the image of an arrogant prosecutor who often made wrong or inept moves in cases like Waco and Elian. "The Republicans will absolutely crucify her with negative ads," says prominent Florida attorney Dexter Douglass, who helped lead Al Gore's Tallahassee legal team during the presidential recount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Reno | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...bread-and-circuses journalistic spectacles of the 1990s began with Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill. The tradition proceeded through violent variations such as Waco, Oklahoma City, and Columbine; through the deaths-in-their-golden-prime of Diana and John Jr., and through that masterpiece of sexual, interracial, and criminal drama, the O.J. Simpson case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hefner Effect and Serious Journalism | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

...During his first week of vacation, Bush ventured all the way to Waco -about 25 minutes from Crawford - to "help build" a house with Habitat for Humanity. Though Bush actually spent about 15 minutes doing anything, the print media dutifully reported his activity. More importantly, of course, the images of Bush at work on a good deed were carried across the nation on television and in photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vacationing Bush Works Hard for His Photo-Ops | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...operations. The CAFOs milk as many as 2,000 cows a day, and the county has about 110,000 dairy cows that produce an estimated 1.8 million tons of cow poop a year. The stuff has got into the North Bosque and its tributary streams, which feed into Lake Waco, the drinking-water source for the city of Waco. The local water in Erath County shows increasing levels of nitrates, ammonia and fecal coliform bacteria. A farmer hired an independent water-monitoring firm and learned fecal coliform counts in his creek were running from 50,000 units per 100 milliliters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home, Home On The Latrine | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...that is, in the absence of world-historical events or the fall of empires, they filled the news hole, they fed the many-headed media beast. Once the Soviet Union and the Cold War were gone, we have had Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the O.J. Simpson case, Waco, Oklahoma City, the death of Princess Diana, Colombine, the Icarus descent of John Kennedy Jr, Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Elian Gonzalez, and much, much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chandra and Gary — and the Predatory Media | 7/26/2001 | See Source »

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