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JANUARY 11, 1999 VOL. 153 NO. 1


Spotlight

AMAZON.$: Jeff Bezos takes the credit (no cash, please) as online shopping comes into its own this holiday season, sending Wall Street into a frenzy over Internet stocks and driving the market value of his electronic bookseller Amazon.com above the sum of its two brick-and-mortar competitors.

W I N N E R S

JACKIE CHAN
Tough guy admits he washes own socks to avoid big hotel laundry bills. Mom would be proud
HOLLYWOOD
The perfect Christmas gift: $147.7 million, the biggest three-day box
MIR SPACE CREW
Astronauts are cheered at Russian New Year by shuttled presents from their wives

L O S E R S

MATT GROENING
Creator of The Simpsons says Bart's a bad role model for his own kids and apologizes to show's fans
BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Investigators claim many of its Greek and Roman antiquities come from looted Italian sites
ROMANIAN STOMACHS
Hospitals treat thousands during holiday pig-out on pork, pickled cabbage and vodka

V E R B A T I M
"Get rid of all the Americans and all of the Jews out of the land of Islam."
Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan-based Saudi suspected of instigating the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa last year

"In the business that I'm in, we sometimes have to shake the hands of the aggressor."
Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General, on why he talks to those the U.S. labels as terrorists

"To hell with this stupid show business. Everything was a fake."
Sir Anthony Hopkins, Oscar-winning British actor on why he'll quit acting

"Finding a job is harder than pulling a star out of the sky."
Cho Eun Young, South Korean student, on the plight of the country's graduates in a market where 2 million workers lost their jobs last year



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