Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some luminous stars of TV journalism--Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. It was a pretty predictable guest list for this crowd. But there was someone sitting at the same table who does not make a regular haunt of Fifth Avenue apartments. Uncharacteristically dressed in a suit, his beard a thinning shadow of its former self, Fidel Castro, 69, nibbled on gold-embossed cookies, told jokes and held forth on everything from elections to heaven and hell. High above Central Park, the absolute leader of Cuba was excellent company, if a little long-winded...
...purpose of Castro's p.r. offensive--and his dapper new suit--was very specific. He desperately wants the U.S. to end its 33-year-old trade embargo. With no more subsidies from the Soviet Union, the Cuban economy has almost ground to a halt. Normalized trade with the huge market 90 miles to the north would make all the difference in Cuba's fortunes, and the unfairness and foolishness of the embargo were the themes Castro returned to again and again. His suit, meanwhile, conveyed an aura of reasonableness that military fatigues, Castro's usual wardrobe...
...Savannah, Georgia, to graduate from college. "It's like I made it for all of us," he says. "That's what really pains me. I feel like I am the only one who had the opportunity to succeed." Active in student government and the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall wears a suit to class every day, always anticipating an impromptu meeting with a school administrator. A mentor to fellow black students and local inner-city youth, he shepherded 50 Emory students to Washington last week...
THEY ASKED ME TO CONTINUE CONcealing the losses." With head bowed, the jailed banker in a gray, pinstriped suit read those words to U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey. But Toshihide Iguchi's words last week reverberated far beyond the New York City courtroom. Not only was he pleading guilty to covering up the $1.1 billion in losses he had incurred for Daiwa Bank's New York operations (and personally profiting by more than $500,000). He was also implicating unnamed senior executives at the bank--the world's 13th largest--in a conspiracy with him to keep the catastrophe secret...
...front row (two places to the right of Clinton), standing to the left of France's new conservative President Jacques Chirac. A pair of paleocommunist and postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama...