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SEPTEMBER 25, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 12
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WEIGHT OF EXPECTATION In any Olympic Games, the greatest pressure falls on those athletes performing
before a home crowd. In Sydney, Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman carries the hopes of 19 million
Australians into the women's 200-m and 400-m events. Illustration for TIME by Mark Sofilas |
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Winners NIKKI WEBSTER Thirteen-year-old Sydneysider steals the show at Olympic opening ceremony HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Makes history by being the first U.S. First Lady to get her name on an election ballot BARBIE Move aside, Ken! Funky DJ is the new plastic boypal for the best-selling blonde babe |
Losers TONY BLAIR Running on empty. Fuel crisis sparks British P.M.'s worst domestic crisis since election HUTOMO MANDALA PUTRA Police question Suharto's son (better known as "Tommy") over Jakarta bombings KAPIL DEV Stumped! Disgraced Indian cricket coach and alleged match-fixer calls it quits |
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"We have been bending backward for so long we are beginning to look like contortionists." ORLANDO MERCADO, the Philippines' Defense Secretary, expressing concern that the hostage crisis had made his country look weak "The next few days I'm going fishing." WEN HO LEE, former American nuclear weapons scientist and accused spy, following his release from prison |
"I did work hard, and I want to keep my earnings. Can you lower my taxes, please?" VENUS WILLIAMS, U.S. Open winner, in a post-match phone conversation with President Bill Clinton " When I was a young kid, and you were going into acting, you weren't supposed to have a vowel at the end of your name." AL PACINO, Hollywood leading man, revealing that early in his career he nearly changed his name to Sonny Scott |
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