Word: hobnobbing
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...While happy to hobnob with all sorts of leaders whose human rights records are every bit as odious as Castro's - and despite the fact that the U.S. periodically negotiates with his government on issues ranging from immigration to drug interdiction - this White House, like its seven predecessors, makes a point of publicly shunning the Cuban leader. Thus Crowley went out of his way to emphasize Thursday that Castro would not be welcome at President Clinton's gala event for world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum. Last time Clinton left the Cuban leader off his guest list, Castro upstaged...