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JANUARY 17, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 2
Spotlight
MONEY MAN: U.S. President Bill Clinton renominated Alan Greenspan to his fourth four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve last week just as stocks worldwide began to stumble. Greenspan's toughest call is how to temper U.S. growth by raising interest rates without global market aftershocks. Photo-Illustration for TIME by Arthur Hochstein
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Winners
STEVE JOBS
Apple founder's comeback turns full circle as he officially becomes the computer maker's CEO again
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
Just 13, Welsh songstress is the youngest to crack the list of Britain's 30 richest musicians
FIDEL CASTRO
U.S. ruling promises Cuba's leader a political prize: 6-year-old refugee Elian Gonzalez
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Losers
EZER WEIZMAN
Israeli President faces pressure to quit after revelations that he took undisclosed gifts worth $450,000
CHRIS EVANS
British media man voted century's third most hated person, after Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein
"TOKYO JOE"
Korean immigrant turned Net stock guru faces U.S. fraud charges for misleading punters
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Verbatim
"Y2K is the greatest con trick that was ever foisted upon business."
JON FOWLER, spokesman for an Australian business association, questioning the money spent fighting the much-hyped year 2000 computer bug
"The regime won't change. The interests and the privileges of the oligarchy will be fully protected."
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, former President of the Soviet Union, on the choice of Vladimir Putin to succeed Boris Yeltsin as Russia's leader
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"Muslims should not rest in peace until we have destroyed America and India."
MAULANA MASOOD AZHAR, Kashmiri militant, after being freed by New Delhi to end the Indian Airlines hijacking ordeal
"I wish I was a better drawer."
CHARLES M. SCHULZ, legendary creator of the Peanuts cartoon, after announcing its retirement
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