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AUGUST 16, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 6
Spotlight
TAKE DOWN: Hoping to cash in on the IPO fever, World Wrestling Federation boss Vince McMahon is tackling Wall Street. Will the company of Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve tagteam its way to riches? Or will the market put a headlock on the new offering? Stay tuned--this one doesn't have a scripted ending. Illustration for TIME by Ward Sutton
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Winners
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Liz is back! Actress, 67, is returning to the big screen as a talent agent in a movie scripted by Carrie Fisher
VAN GOGH
Record crowds line up to see Dutch master's works in new wing of eponymous Amsterdam museum
IRIS MURDOCH
British author lives on for science--her brain is to be preserved for medical research
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Losers
KATHY JAGER
56-year-old U.S. track champ forced to defuse allegations that she's a man. Her proof: two kids
VLADIMIR LENIN
Soviet founder's corpse to be removed from mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square
WIM KOK
Dutch PM found to have worst website of all EU leaders--too hard to find, too little info
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Verbatim
"He was so young, barely four, when he was scarred by abuse that he can't even take it out and look at it."
Hillary Clinton, speculating that husband Bill's infidelity can be traced to a troubled childhood
"He is of German blood... I'm sure he is a Nazi sympathizer."
Mohammed al-Fayed, on Britain's Prince Philip, whom he blames for the deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi
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"Our most serious problem, security, would be solved."
Paul Chou, Taiwanese pro-statehood advocate, proposing that the U.S. make Taiwan its 51st state
"The goose that lays the golden golf egg will be killed."
Frank Riddell, resident of Scotland's St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf, decrying plans to build more courses in the area
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