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<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Janet
Reno</b></font></font><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>
Stands Tall</b></font><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br>
</b> <font size="1">Seven years as attorney general and Janet Reno
is still the most misunderstood woman in Washington. the cool part
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<td width="330" valign="top" height="701"> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Who
would have thought that Janet Reno would become one of Bill Clinton’s
longest-serving cabinet members? Back in 1993, after all, she was
his third choice for attorney general. The plainspoken state attorney
for Dade County, Florida, was little known to Washington upon her
nomination, and upon her arrival she never cozied up to D.C.’s power
players. Then, just months into her term, came the fiasco at Waco,
when Reno’s decision to storm the Branch Davidian compound sparked
a fiery chain reaction that led to the deaths of more than 80 people.
While some Clintonites whispered that she wasn’t a team player who
was in over her head, Reno won the respect of Americans outside the
Beltway by unflinchingly taking responsibility for the disaster. </font>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Those
who know Reno weren’t surprised—the attorney general had the kind
of childhood that builds character. Her father was a crusading reporter
for the <i>Miami Herald</i>; her mother, also a journalist, built
the family’s house on 21 acres in the Florida Everglades. Reno grew
up surrounded by wildlife: Occasionally, she wrestled alligators.
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<p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">As
the country’s chief law enforcement official, Reno oversees a vast
range of issues, from the appointment of special prosecutors to
the supervision of the FBI. She has become increasingly active in
the debate over gun-related violence and has led her department
into a precedent-setting antitrust suit against Microsoft. </font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><i>George</i>
executive editor Richard Blow interviewed Reno in her office at
the Department of Justice. The attorney general can be maddeningly
vague when she doesn’t want to answer a question. But she also has
a dry sense of humor. And when she doesn’t feel that she’s talking
out of school, she’ll give a straight answer to a straight question.
“I am who I am,”she says. How many politicians could so comfortably
say the same?</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Let’s
discuss some of the issues you deal with. You talk a lot about Children
and the importance of community. How does that fit in with the Justice
Department?</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#FFFFFF">
As a state attorney in Miami, I had to figure out what to do about
crack-involved infants. We had to determine whether the children
were treated as dependents, whether the mothers should be prosecuted.
The doctors took me to a public hospital and showed me babies being
kept there because their mothers were incapacitated. They had not
been held or talked to, and they were not demonstrating physical
reactions or emotions. The doctors taught me that the first three
years of life are the most formative because that is when the person
learns the concept of reward and punishment. And I suddenly thought,
What good are all the prisons going to be 20 years from now if these
children don’t understand what punishment means? So I’ve seen crime
prevention as a continuum throughout a child’s life. </font></p>
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