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...Last week, at the ceremonies starting the U.S. Open and inaugurating the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, Gibson's name echoed in the list of past tournament winners. But few commentators noted that she was missing among the living champions gathered for the extravaganza. Andre Agassi's supposed snub of the opening ceremony was much easier to headline. But Gibson's absence was heart-wrenching. The new stadium was named for a man who broke race barriers in the '60s and '70s. Althea Gibson broke race barriers in the '50s: she was the first black person...
...Bedford's strongest argument is that the whole nation is moving in its direction: critics say Dunn has been able to snub managed care only because Indiana has been among the states slowest to require it. Its economic good fortune will change, they say, when the two automobile companies with large plants in Bedford start requiring employees to shift to managed care and when Medicaid and Medicare begin pushing recipients into HMOs. At that point, if Dunn is to survive, it may have to sell out to a large for-profit chain. Should that happen, Bedford's medical civil...
...delegation, a position they feel would suggest their downgrading to the status of a Chinese province. But Hong Kong officials stand to lose either way: if they seat the two parties together, the Taiwanese will boycott the events. If they seat them apart, Beijing will consider it a public snub before an international audience. Beijing argues that under the red flag, Taiwan would enjoy even more autonomy than Hong Kong if it chose to reunify with the motherland. But that is what the majority of people in Taiwan fear the most. Says TIME's Don Shapiro, "The people in Taiwan...
Vigorous diplomacy was required to shore up allied support for U.S. actions. The most egregious snub seemed to come from Kuwait, the very nation the coalition rescued from Saddam's grasp, when the U.S. Administration's plan to deploy an added 3,500 Americans was publicly put on hold for a day. But officials admit the show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair...
...lower the temperature without getting something in return." Mubarak's refusal to take part in talks marks a major disappointment for the U.S., since it leave out a country that has been the main Arab partner of the U.S. in the turbulent Middle East. "This is a powerful snub that betrays a lack of confidence and trust in Clinton's plans," says MacLeod. "In the long term, perceived U.S. bias toward Israel further undermines the internal position of pro-American Arab regimes under threat from Islamic militants." Clinton may be hoping for rapprochement around the table in Washington, but without...