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...least there was plausible deniability on the handshake. Or so the White House thought, Thursday, after Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to shake hands with Fidel Castro. Hours after the inevitable had happened - the U.S. president and the Cuban strongman came face to face on their way out of a luncheon for world leaders hosted by Kofi Annan at the U.N. and held their first-ever conversation - U.S. officials were especially eager to ensure that nobody read any geopolitical meaning into the moment. "A chance encounter" initiated by Castro, said Secretary of State Albright, insisting that the conversation...
...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...
They?ve been trying for four years now, but Californians just can?t seem to shake those stodgy federal drug laws. Tuesday, at the White House?s request, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ban (by a vote of 7 to 1) on the distribution of marijuana for medical purposes. Striking down a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in San Francisco that would have made "medical necessity" a defense against federal drug statutes, the Justices indicated they would consider the case for their fall docket...
President Clinton spent the final summer weekend of his presidency on a strange sojourn in raw, unfinished Abuja trying to shake other misperceptions about Nigeria. Abuja, like Brasilia and - come to think of it - Washington, D.C., was nothing until the Nigerian government decided a generation ago to move their capital 300 miles inland. The Gwari tribe was forced off its land as the government began constructing its new capital here in the middle of the country. They chose the sparsely-populated region because it isn't dominated by any of the three major tribes, the Hausa, the Yoruba...
...troubling aspect of the place: Everything, including the shake cup, felt covered in a thin layer of grease, as if it had been misted on. The napkins, included by the counter employee in the cardboard serving box, had been nestled between the burgers and were nearly useless for any serious post-meal cleanup. I made two trips to the bathroom for hand-washes and paper towels...