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MAY 22, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 20
Spotlight
HIS HONOR REGRETS Two weeks after disclosing he has prostate cancer, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he was separating from his wife of 16 years and was "very good friends" with another woman. None of this was good news for his campaign against Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate. Illustration for TIME by Tom Fluharty.
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Winners
RUSSELL CROWE
All roads lead to the box-office. Actor's breakout performance propels Gladiator to No.1
JOHN TOWERS
Workers hail British exec as hero after his group buys struggling carmaker Rover for token $15
NICOLA BARKER
Young Brit novelist's Wide Open wins $115,000 Dublin award, world's richest fiction prize
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Losers
YOSHIRO MORI
Mud-slinging time. Japanese PM hit by sex-scandal charges as unofficial election race kicks off
HALLE BERRY
You don't go, girl. U.S. actress is fined and put on three years' probation over hit-and-run
MAURICE DELANEY
Party pooper! Cannes mayor imposes midnight beach curfew during film festival
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Verbatim
" We must be 'dotcom' ... or else we are likely to be 'dot-dead.' "
IVY MATSEPE-CASABURRI, South Africa's Communications Minister, urging her countrymen to embrace the Internet
" I endorse Governor Bush. I endorse Governor Bush. I endorse Governor Bush. "
JOHN MCCAIN,
Republican Senator, announcing that he will back his ex-rival in the U.S. presidential campaign
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" He's a prince, so I guess he thinks he can send flowers and e-mails to who he likes. "
DANIEL JOHNS, Australian rock star, on Prince William's overtures to his singer girlfriend Natalie Imbruglia
" I will die. I will commit suicide before I take a bribe. "
KAPIL DEV, retired Indian cricket icon, in a tearful BBC interview, denying allegations he fixed matches during his career
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