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JUNE 19, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 24
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SYSTEM SHUTDOWN Geek god and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates comes out with guns blazing after U.S. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders the software giant split into two in a historic antitrust ruling. Dismissing Jackson's finding that the company broke the law, Gates say he'll appeal--and win. Illustration for TIME by Edel Rodriguez / Photo by Larry Downing REUTERS. |
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WINNERS BOB HOPE Doctors declare frisky 97-year-old U.S. comic in "amazing shape," release him from hospital early MICHAEL BLAKEMORE Aussie-born director wins an unprecedented double at Broadway's annual Tony awards INGE DE BRUIJN Dutch swimmer smashes four world records in a fortnight. What does she eat? |
LOSERS TONY BLAIR The honeymoon ends, at last. British PM is heckled and jeered during speech to women's group EHUD BARAK Israeli leader stumbles into crisis after coalition partners vote with opposition for early elections GEORGE SPEIGHT Belligerent businessman's coup hobbles Fiji's economy as tourism and trade slump |
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" The hermit kingdom has become the hyperactive kingdom. " STANLEY ROTH, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, on North Korea's recent overtures " It's a slimming color. Anything else makes me look like a sofa. " MADONNA, pregnant pop star, on wearing black at the British premiere of her movie The Next Best Thing |
" See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. That's Madeleine's entire foreign policy. " BILL CLINTON, joking to Russia's Vladimir Putin about three monkeys on a brooch worn by U.S. Secretary of State Albright " In the toilet, people are more relaxed and receptive to our message. " JIMMY OSTHOLM, Ikea manager, on the furniture retailer's handwritten job ads in Swedish lavatories |
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