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Republican Governor A. Paul Cellucci, acting governor after William F. Weld '66 left his post early, defeated Attorney General Scott L. Harshbarger '64 in a tight gubernatorial campaign last fall...
Proponents of the law say people like Father Timothy Mockaitis need it. In April 1996, Mockaitis went to the Lane County, Ore., jailhouse to hear the confession of Conan Wayne Hale. Authorities had charged Hale with murdering three teenagers. District Attorney F. Douglass Harcleroad, thinking Hale might break down and tell all, had secretly arranged to bug the confession...
...quite believed what Janet Reno was saying. The Attorney General walked into the press conference on Friday, dressed in a straw yellow silk suit and pearls, and denied that she was furious at the FBI and its director, Louis Freeh. "You all are going to try your level best to make us enemies, but you're not going to succeed," Reno said, her face fixed in a thin smile...
Janet Reno is finally learning the value of checks and balances. Evidently unwilling to court still more Republican ire with the internal, FBI-staffed investigation she initially promised, the attorney general is wooing straight-shooting former senator John Danforth of Missouri to head the new probe into the Waco conflagration. Danforth, a party-line-bucking iconoclast who retired from the Senate in 1995, is a former Missouri attorney general, an ordained Episcopal priest and the kind of guy who won?t stop to consider the FBI?s feelings if he finds anything rotten in the state of the agency...
...WHAT IT'S ABOUT] Novel about driven female attorney committed to solving two murders...