Word: cohiba
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...West has been trying to understand Saddam's psyche for years. A few intimate details have long been observed. Saddam never sleeps in his grand palaces but moves each night to a secret house or tent. He smokes Cohiba cigars supplied by Fidel Castro. He dyes his graying hair black. He walks with a slight limp, allegedly from back trouble, but he looks remarkably fit when seen, usually sitting or standing, on TV. Invariably he now appears wearing immaculately tailored suits in place of the green army fatigues he once favored. Iraqis say he has not worn his uniform publicly...
...builder of consensus. Born in a working-class Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, he rose to become a lawyer, a bank CEO and a moderate Rockefeller Republican. He describes himself as a "lunch-pail guy"--albeit one who owns a vineyard in Tuscany and who celebrated his promotion with a Cohiba Esplendido cigar and a $400 bottle of 1963 Taylor port...
...corrupt campaign finance regime. His ragtag band of rebels, including those muckraking scamps at The New York Times and the Washington Post, wages a guerrilla campaign against the Establishment. The amazing thing is that he hasn’t yet been offed by The Man, a fat fellow smoking Cohiba cigars in a cavernous K Street office who commands legions of anti-McCain lackeys—a deceptively ecumenical lot, with members stretching from organized labor and the American Civil Liberties Union to the Christian Coalition...
...nine losses; six world amateur championships since 1986 and gold medals in the past two Olympics. You'd think a Cuban fighter who has owned the ring like that for the past 15 years could retire to a beach hammock with a tall glass of Havana Club and a Cohiba...
...will be known as a failed dictator who ruled in the age of Los Van Van. But until recently, the legendary salsa troupe, whose virile and eclectic rhythms have influenced Latin music for three decades, was not much more familiar to most Americans than the rich puff of a Cohiba cigar...