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AUGUST 9, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 5
Spotlight
PEDAL TO THE METTLE: After almost dying of cancer in 1996, U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong overcame chemotherapy and faithless sponsors to win the Tour de France. His victory inspired patients everywhere--and was just what the doctor ordered for a sport often tainted by drug use among competitors. Illustration for TIME by Michelle Chang
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Winners
MAURICE ASHLEY
Checkmate! Jamaican immigrant to U.S. is first person of color to become chess grandmaster
ABDULLAH II
Jordanian king dons disguise, mingles with subjects to find out what's really on their minds
EUGENE SHOEMAKER
Astronomer-geologist's ashes to get moon burial. Wannabe astronaut finally makes it to space
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Losers
FIDEL CASTRO
Sore loser. Cuban Prez calls Canada "enemy territory" after Cuban delegates defect during Pan Am Games
LINDA TRIPP
Monica Lewinsky's ex-friend gets wiretap indictment for secretly taping the Clinton intern's calls
ROSS PEROT
Out in the cold. U.S. Reform Party bars founder from third presidential run
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Verbatim
"Li Hongzhi has the evil aim of developing Falun Gong into a political force that can be used against the government and the party."
People's Daily, Chinese Communist Party newspaper, on the leader of the popular meditation group
"If my mother knew I was on a motorcycle in Kargil, she'd die."
James Murgadrotd, tourist, on lingering hostilities between Indian troops and Islamic insurgents in Kashmir
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"You won't believe what a big role that plays."
Gabriele Weishaeupl, Oktoberfest 1999 organizer, on installing 100 extra toilets at the site of the world's biggest beer festival
"No government, not even Franco, has been able to stop Spaniards from partying."
Alberto Moncada, sociologist, on the imposition of curfews on Madrid's open-'til-dawn bars and discos
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