1.   Did it send a feeling of revulsion down you er when you saw Sir Edward Heath shaking hands with Saddam Hussein yesterday?

2.   Not with this bleeding hand.

3.   And an aversion to shaking hands with strangers.

4.   Carefully cut slits down the fingers and hand with a razor blade.

5.   Ever since tearing the rotator cuff in his left shoulder, Fiedler had been handing off with his right hand.

6.   He had completed dozens of credit forms while on Spring Break in Florida because free T-shirts were handed out with each application.

7.   He walked onto the court to shoot around before the game and shook hands with fans, joked with ex-teammates and observed his surroundings.

8.   Hilario shaking hands with NBA Commissioner David Stern at the Garden, Wednesday.

9.   --Ninety-eight percent of the time, I wash with soap and boiling water after shaking hands with a microbiologist.

10.   Now it is being handed over with a simple ceremony that will not even be attended by President Clinton, whom Haynes has always wanted to meet.