SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS GORE ENDORSEMENT
Just moments after former Vice President Al Gore endorsed former Vermont Governor Howard Dean for President in Harlem yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned his endorsement by a 5-4 margin.
The Court, finding the former Vice President’s endorsement of Mr. Dean unconstitutional, transferred his endorsement to President George W. Bush instead.
(BOROWITZ, unearthed by Joel Sogol)

INTERNATIONAL RUM FESTIVAL
Preparations are already underway in Havana for the International Rum Festival, scheduled for June 6 to 9, 2004 to coincide with festivities for the 485th anniversary of the founding of the city of San Cristobal de La Habana.
During that period, Havana will be transformed into the world’s capital for quality rum thanks to fruitful exchanges between producers, retailers, bar tenders and rum-lovers from around the globe and particularly from those regions where rum is produced from the sugar cane and select honeys from the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America."
(GRANMA, unearthed by Cuban Daily News Digest)

ADIOS RUBEN
"Ruben Gonzalez, one of the stars of the Buena Vista Social Club band, died Monday in Havana. He was 84. Gonzalez was the pianist of the group that helped spark a renaissance of traditional Cuban music."
(NPR)

IT'S WORKED SO WELL FOR THEM
"Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday."
(GUARDIAN, unearthed by Common Dreams)

THE KETTLE IS BLACK
"President Bush cites dictator Fidel Castro's recent crackdown against dissidents as reason to prolong the 42-year-old Cuba embargo. Yet the Cuban people know that Bush himself has imprisoned, indefinitely and without due process on that same island, hundreds of Muslims as 'enemy combatants' of the United States. The hypocrisy isn't lost on anyone. Although Bush shouldn't be compared to Castro, whose atrocities are many, the president's high road to moral superiority ends at the Guantanamo gulag. Once again, Castro can thumb his nose at a U.S. rationalization for the embargo."
(DAYTONA NEWS-JOURNAL, unearthed by Cuba News Digest)

CHE FACEPLATE OPTIONAL
"Cubans wear them like fine jewelry, but they don't glitter. They ring. They chime. They even vibrate. Cellphones, old news in most of the Americas, are the latest rage in this socialist nation. They're a symbol of status and power, a way to slip into the wireless world, if only for a moment."
(DALLAS NEWS, unearthed by Cuba Daily News Digest)