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AUGUST 23-30, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7/8
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YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: In last year's Bulworth, Warren Beatty played a U.S. Senator crazy enough to speak the truth--in rap lyrics. Now, he's mulling a real-life run for the presidency. A self-proclaimed liberal Democrat, Beatty says his pet issue is campaign-finance reform. Quick, what rhymes with soft money? |
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Winners JIMMY CARTER Still fighting the good fight, ex-Prez blasts Indonesian government for ethnic violence in East Timor BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Now that's a Human Touch. Taxman says the Boss gave his hometown $350,000 to repair old-age homes JOERN UTZON Sydney Opera House architect who quit project in disgust can return to finish job, 33 years later |
Losers PRINCE PHILIP Queen Elizabeth II's hubby puts foot in mouth again, this time with a quip about Indian workmanship SERGEI STEPASHIN Here today... Fourth Russian premier in 17 months to be sacked by President Yeltsin FRANCISCO BRENNAND Brazilian artist's proposed phallus-like sculpture outrages many in Recife |
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"Isn't it better to take out Milosevic [and] Saddam Hussein than to spend billions of dollars on a war that harms innocent civilians?" PAT ROBERTSON, head of the Christian Coalition, a conservative U.S. religious group "Jesus never said anything about assassinating heads of state." BARRY LYNN, leader of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, disputing Robertson |
"He is not a KGB man, he is my pupil." ANATOLI SOBCHAK, former liberal mayor of St. Petersburg, on Russia's new Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin "The more controversy, the better. Only this way will everyone pay attention to... the Republic of China's existence." LEE TENG-HUI, President of Taiwan, relishing his country's continuing confrontation with China |
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