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Culture on Demand: Black is Beautiful The American Express black card is the ultimate status symbol Asia Buzz: Should the Net Be Free? Web heads want it all -- for nothing JAPAN: Failed Revolution Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori clings to power as dissidents in his party finally decide not to back a no-confidence motion Cover: Endgame? After Florida's controversial ballot recount, Bush holds a 537-vote lead in the state, which could give him the election |
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JULY 10, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 1
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THE BIG STORY He's probably the only kid capable of pushing Cuban
ex-refugee Elián González off America's front pages. The much-awaited
fourth adventure of boy wizard Harry Potter, wildly successful creation
of novelist J.K. Rowling, is set for release in select countries
July 8. Illustration for TIME by Michelle Chang |
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Winners FIDEL CASTRO Nice haul. Cuban leader gets U.S. food deal plus the return of prodigal son Elián RALPH LAUREN Prince of Polo gives up annual bonus as company stock price falls. Now that's belt-tightening MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Top U.S. diplomat graciously praises cosmetics after grueling nine-day round-the-world trip |
Losers MO MOWLAM Apology can't undo the uproar as British minister suggests the Queen move out of royal digs ERNST AUGUST Loo-ser. Prince of Hanover admits he made pee-pee in public at his town's World Expo MIKE TYSON Ears aren't enough? Boxer now says he wants to eat rival Lennox Lewis' children |
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"The word 'scandal' has been thrown around here like a clanging teapot for seven years." BILL CLINTON, U.S. President, scolding reporters for using the term in reference to his administration "What we were doing was exposing Microsoft's own little Watergate." LARRY ELLISON, chairman of Oracle Corp., admitting that his company hired investigators to probe his software-making rival |
" Never in my entire life has anyone been able to buy me." HELMUT KOHL, disgraced former German Chancellor, denying before an inquiry that he accepted bribes while in office "With China's first-class talents but third-class wages, there is plenty of room for development of the Internet." LIU TAI-YING, chairman of Taiwan's China Development Bank |
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