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...observers at Wednesday's opening session of the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York, which will be attended by both men. During Castro's last visit to a U.N. event in 1995, U.S. officials naturally snubbed him and left him off the guest list for President Clinton's gala event hosting all the world leaders present. But the wily Cuban strongman, who has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, wasn't about to sulk off to a movie. He simply went back to the same Harlem church he'd addressed in the early '60s for an uproarious pep rally that drew...
...Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. Later that night, he met some unspecified American "friends" at Cuba's U.N. mission. In the chaotic swirl of some 700 bilateral meetings around the city over the next two days, nobody knows quite what Castro is planning for the night of Clinton's gala. He is slated to attend an Upper West Side church service for invited guests only on Friday; that, too, could turn out to be a traffic-stopper, given the fact that thousands of Cuban-Americans still smarting from their defeat over Elian Gonzalez will relish the opportunity to vent their rage...
...both. He has two children, a son and a daughter, from his first. It is impossible if you are standing nearby to miss their deep affection. Stories of their romance charm New York's social world. Annan's friend Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., recalls a gala where, long after most guests had gone home, Kofi and Nane stayed out on the dance floor, dancing by themselves...
...Michael Tilson Thomas, the Great American Conductor, celebrates the centenary of the Great American Composer by leading the San Francisco Symphony in Aaron Copland's electrifying Symphony No. 3 (Sept. 27-28). Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel, the hottest tickets of the post-Pavarotti era, join forces for a gala concert at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House (Oct. 29). Ace countertenor David Daniels, opera's freshest star, makes his triumphant return to the New York City Opera in a new production of Handel's Rinaldo (Oct. 31). And Chanticleer, the Grammy-winning 12-man a cappella vocal ensemble...
Their messages are many, but they all share one feeling--that something is very wrong with the glitzy Republican gala across town, and with the state of the American democracy that created...