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...spotlight shone on Sahadi during the post position draw for the Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling...
...start building democratic and capitalist bridges there in preparation for his demise. Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba, say that kind of dialoguista thinking "just props up a dictator." Freyre counters that the demagogic feud with Castro is self-serving, propping up the political and economic clout of the C.A.N.F. in Miami--and in Washington, where the lobby can still make politicos like Al Gore do the Exile Shuffle. The Elian episodes certainly were additional steps in that hoary choreography...
...FEUD OF THE WEEK...
...Absent a happy ending in the Gonzalez family feud, the U.S. government has indicated it will apply the law, which recognizes Juan Miguel as Elian's guardian. The questions in the coming days, then, are whether and how the Miami family plans to hand Elian over to his father, and how the INS plans to ensure that they do so. And, of course, how the hundreds of demonstrators who've vowed to stop the boy from leaving Lazaro's house might react. Then there's the drama of Elian's own reunion with a father he's known only...
...FEUD OF THE WEEK...