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JUNE
26, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 25
SPOTLIGHT
SWEEPSTAKES Sammy Sosa is one of American baseball's most popular players, so it's no wonder a secret bidding war has begun for the Chicago Cubs slugger. Will it be the New York Mets, New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox? The Dominican, who has the right to veto any trade, isn't saying. Illustration for time by C F Payne.
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WINNERS
SARAH FERGUSON
Three-year exile from the royal fold ends as Fergie is invited by Queen to Windsor Castle party
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Pontiff gives 200 homeless their daily bread, veal and bubbly at symbolic Vatican lunch
JERRY HALL
Here's to you. Model to replace Kathleen Turner in West End revival of The Graduate
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LOSERS
NOEL GALLAGHER
Nobody likes a sourpuss. Oasis guitarist is voted world's least cool rock star by British music mag
HANSIE CRONJE
Disgraced South African cricket captain pulls up stumps after dramatic bribe-taking confession
LOCKHEED MARTIN
Aerospace giant is fined a record $13 million for giving China secret satellite data
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VERBATIM
" It was not just once or twice that I plunged into deep despair thinking that I would never ... step on the soil of the North in my lifetime. But now I have attained my lifelong wish. "
KIM DAE JUNG, South Korean President, on the historic Pyongyang summit
" You have to slow down when you eat buckwheat noodles."
KIM JONG IL, North Korean President, advising his southern counterpart on how to enjoy the North's signature dish
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"Stock options have become as American as motherhood and apple pie."
PATRICK MCGURN, U.S. investment adviser
"He was not a democrat by any means. But what's new? Who is a democrat in this region?"
WALID KAZZIHA, specialist in Syrian politics, on the late President Hafez Assad
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