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MARCH 13, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 10
Spotlight
FREE AT LAST: After more than 500 days under house arrest in London, former dictator Augusto Pinochet, 84, flew home to Chile. The general, who was freed after Britain pronounced him mentally unfit for trial, is unlikely to face further prosecution for human rights abuses that marked his 17-year rule. Illustration for TIME by Harry Harrison
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Winners
RUSSELL COUTTS
New Zealand skipper graciously lets understudy steer in America's Cup clincher against Italy
RICHARD LI
Young Hong Kong tycoon beats out Singaporean rival in Asia's biggest corporate takeover
PRINCE CHARLES
Dances, sports fake dreadlocks and does high-five on Jamaica visit. That's Cool Britannia
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Losers
ROLAND DUMAS
France's ex-Foreign Minister quits top court post in wake of criminal charges over oil-firm kickbacks
LEE HSIEN YANG
Young SingTel head can't move fast enough, loses Hong Kong phone giant to guy at left
ERIC CLAPTON
Slowhand? Caught speeding in Britain, guitar god loses right to drive for six months
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Verbatim
"The greatest and most monumental dance of death of all time."
ADOLF EICHMANN, late Nazi war criminal and key player in Hitler's "Final Solution," describing the Holocaust in a just-released prison memoir
"I would like to apologize for the things that have happened in the past."
ABDURRAHMAN WAHID, Indonesian President, during his historic visit to East Timor, on 24 years of Jakarta's brutal rule
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"The child was six years old. How did that child get that gun?"
BILL CLINTON, U.S. President, on the fatal shooting of a Michigan student by a six-year-old classmate
"It sounds like a bubble, it looks like a bubble and it feels like a bubble."
WONG TOON KING, chairman of Singapore Internet company SilkRoute Holdings, on the e-mania gripping Asia's stock markets
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