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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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OCTOBER 23, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 16
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MAN OF ACTION South Korea's Kim Dae Jung, the onetime dissident who became
President, has won the Nobel Prize for Peace for his groundbreaking efforts since taking
office in 1998 to promote warmer ties with Stalinist North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Il. Illustration for TIME by Steve Carver |
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Winners PRINCESS CAROLINE Monaco beauty wins $87,000 after a court rules German magazine invaded her privacy GERI HALLIWELL Former Spice Girl tops British women's poll for (wait for it) the best breasts in showbiz JOHN LENNON On 60th birth anniversary, slain Beatle gets street named after him in Russian city |
Losers PRINCESS STEPHANIE Monaco's aging, wayward wild child has inheritance cut. Try borrowing from sis MARKO MILOSEVIC Freedom bid by playboy son of ex-Yugoslav leader fails when China refuses him entry SALVATORE GENOVESE No longer wanted. Notorious Sicilian mafia boss is nabbed after seven years on the run |
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"I just have to believe they're not going to let this thing spin out of
control. " BILL CLINTON, American President, calling for an immediate cease-fire after the latest round of Middle East violence "I'm having almost as much trouble from friends as from my enemies." VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA, newly sworn-in Yugoslav President, on his struggles to create a government |
"What has frozen can thaw, and what has been contested ground can, over time, become common ground." MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, U.S. Secretary of State, on relations between the U.S. and North Korea "We believe she will help to accurately portray Satan as someone who brings pleasure not pain." PETER GILMORE, Church of Satan spokesman, on actress Elizabeth Hurley's turn as Beelzebub in the Hollywood comedy Bedazzled |
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