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From classical times to today--roughly, from Ben-Hur vs. Messala to the Rock vs. the Undertaker--grudge matches have spiced the playing and watching of sport. Badminton? Fiercely contested by the Chinese and the Danes. Volleyball? Watch out for that Cuba-Brazil match. Swimming? You should hear the trash talking. Basketball? Everyone would love to knock our block off. Man was not automatically civilized simply because he agreed to live, or play, by the rules. He did not abandon rancor, envy or the thirst for vengeance. Just watch any match between Yugoslavia and Croatia...
...quoted Fidel Castro's remark on the presidential candidates: "Never, in times so complex and chaotic as these, have we faced two contenders who are so boring and insipid" [VERBATIM, Aug. 21]. Methinks if George W. Bush is elected, Cuba's Mr. Big Man may be eating his words. Then it will be adios, Fidel! VEE LAPHAM Schaumburg...
...Cuba's so-called "maximum leader" wound up his U.N. visit with a pep rally of sympathizers at the historic Riverside Church on the Upper West Side. He told about 5,000 supporters gathered inside and outside the venue that Harlem is "my second home," and he proved it, too: Cuba's probably the only other place he'd get away with speaking for more than four hours on just about anything that crossed his mind...
...event for world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum. Last time Clinton left the Cuban leader off his guest list, Castro upstaged him by holding a raucous pep rally in a Harlem church and stealing the front page. This time, by all accounts, he simply passed a quiet evening at Cuba's U.N. mission on Lexington Avenue. Maybe it was simply relief that prompted Bill Clinton to shake Castro's hand...
...script, the Cuban leader is a polecat who should be shunned rather than feted by Washington's primary Asian trading partner. But these days, fewer and fewer countries are reading off Washington's script in the conduct of international affairs, least of all when it comes to Cuba. Which makes Castro's presence in New York that much more difficult for the U.S. to manage. In fact, more than anything it's Washington's efforts to simply pretend he isn't here that gives Castro carte blanche to grab the front page...