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APRIL 17, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 15
Spotlight
FATHER-SON GAME The long saga of six-year-old Elián González may finally be coming to an end. After making a dramatic visit to Washington last week, the boy's Cuban father persuaded U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to return Elián to his custody. The transfer could happen early this week. Illustration for time by glynis sweeny.
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Winners
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Teen heartthrob scores exclusive White House interview with Bill Clinton. Like, wow, dude!
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Her shrewd investment in British dotcom firm is set to swell Royal coffers as it readies for IPO
PFIZER
U.S. pharmaceutical giant offers free antifungal drug to hiv-positive South Africans
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Losers
BILL GATES
Show me the window(s)! Judge rules Microsoft broke U.S. antitrust laws, stock plummets
ROLF-ERNST BREUER
Deutsche Bank chairman's plans to create world's biggest bank torpedoed after merger collapse
MARY ROBINSON
U.N. human rights chief snubbed by Russians, branded a liar during trip to Chechnya
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Verbatim
"Microsoft is a corporate culture based on four premises: you work very hard, Bill is always right, it's us versus them and Bill is always right."
MICHAEL GARTENBERG, computer industry analyst, on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
" If anyone wants to sing on television, she will have to wear a decent dress."
HUN SEN, Cambodian Prime Minister, ordering a ban on women in short skirts on TV
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"You know you're bad in bed if, after sex, somebody draws a chalk outline around your body."
PHYLLIS DILLER, American comedienne, showing she hasn't lost her touch at 82
"Africa needs food and medicine. It does not need lessons on democracy."
MUAMMAR GADDAFI, Libyan leader, attacking Western colonialism and capitalism
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