STRONGMAN: Defiant as ever, Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic refused to agree to a cease-fire in Kosovo or to accept the presence of NATO troops in the region. As negotiations broke down last week, the alliance stopped threatening and started bombing. Illustration for TIME by Mikki Rain; photograph by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP; digital composition by Law See

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L O S E R S TERRENCE MALICK Director's Thin Red Line, up for seven Academy Awards, gets shut out at the ceremony HIDEO NOMO He's no longer a rookie phenom, and N.Y. Mets downgrade Japanese pitcher to the minor leagues ROBBIE WILLIAMS Court rules British pop star must indeed pay his ex-manager--to the tune of $1.6 million

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"You have lost a good friend." Jiang Zemin, Chinese President, to Swiss counterpart Ruth Dreifuss when human rights demonstrators marred a reception in Berne "To have 20-year-old girls jumping up and down in front of you is more effective than Viagra." Andy Williams, American singer, 70, whose song Music to Watch Girls By has seen a recent revival on British pop charts	"Take hold of the arms and get control of the chair before sitting down." Memo, to Seattle police, after two workers fell off their rolling desk seats "What a wonderful country this is where nobody has to go to work on Monday." Brian Jones, British co-pilot of the first balloon to circle the globe nonstop, to a thousand-strong Swiss crowd that greeted him--on a Monday