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OCTOBER 4, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 13

Spotlight

MONOPOLY ENDGAME: Closing arguments in the Microsoft antitrust trial were heard last week, but the fight is far from finished. Once Judge Thomas Jackson issues his ruling, probably early next year, the appeals process will start. By the time it's all over, Bill Gates may be the world's first trillionaire. Illustration for TIME by Thomas L. Fluharty


Winners
CAMILLA PARKER-BOWLES
After a major style overhaul, Charles' beloved is treated like a princess by celebs--and the Prince--in New York
BILL BRADLEY
Former dark horse wins key Democratic endorsements. Al "Shoo-In" Gore gets the shivers
CARLOS SANTANA
Twenty-eight years after Oye Como Va, Smooth shoots to No 3. That's real Latin music, Ricky
  Losers
RUDOLPH GIULIANI
He's no fun. N.Y.C. mayor threatens to withdraw funding for art exhibit that includes a bit of doo-doo
NASA
Loses a $125 million spacecraft when it glides too close to Mars. Looks like human error. Doh!
"MR. ALFRED"
Iranian stranded 11 years in Paris airport wins entry to Belgium--but can't bear leaving his bench


Verbatim
"It is brotherly affection. "
ZHANG QIYUE, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, on why Beijing offered earthquake aid to Taiwan

"I just missed getting hit by a bullet. But we won't stop until this country is democratic."
ARIF DARI, Indonesian student, protesting a short-lived law that allowed the military to ban protests

  "[Reagan] remained a mystery to me, and worse still--dare I entertain such a heresy, in the hushed and reverent precincts of his office?--an apparent airhead."
EDMUND MORRIS, Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer, in his new book on the former President

"She was his secret weapon. She boosted him to power."
ALEXANDER GORBACHEV, brother of Mikhail, commenting on the late Raisa Gorbachev's influence on her husband


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