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AUGUST 21-28, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 7/8
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BEHIND EVERY MAN Lynne Cheney and Hadassah Lieberman, wives of this year's U.S. vice-presidential candidates, aren't the kind to stay home baking cookies. Capable and outspoken, the potential second ladies will be helping to call the plays. Illustration for TIME by Glynis Sweeny. |
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Winners JOSEPH LIEBERMAN Gore's barrier-breaking pick for Veep puts new life into what was becoming a dull campaign ANDRAS TAMAS Finally. Hungarian comes home after being institutionalized in Russia for half a century JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE Ex-Prez's party wins control of Haiti legislature, propels him toward a 2000 comeback |
Losers MAHATHIR MOHAMAD Malaysian Prime Minister takes heat over ex-protégé Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy conviction CHUBA OKADIGBO Nigerian upper-house leader impeached as country's anti-corruption drive gains steam ALEXANDER TIKHONOV No golds here. Olympian biathlete arrested for plotting to kill a Russian politician |
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"To all the people of Indonesia, I humbly apologize for not being able to solve the prevailing problems during the last 10 months." ABDURRAHMAN WAHID, Indonesian President, turning over day-to-day responsibility to Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri "I can't believe I barfed in Harrison Ford's helicopter." SARAH GEORGE, ailing American hiker, after a bout of nausea mars her rescue by movie hero |
"Never underestimate the ability of the Australian public to act at the last moment." JOHN O'NEILL, Olympic organizer, of the 2 million unsold tickets to the Sydney Games "When you destroy the women of a people, you destroy that people." CATHARINE A. MACKINNON, lawyer for Bosnian women, who won $745 million from Serbia's Radovan Karadzic for atrocities by his troops |
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