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AUGUST 14, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 6
Spotlight
HE GETS HIS KICKS As Europe's élite football clubs outspend each other trading top talent, the smartest deal was struck by Rivaldo, Barcelona's mercurial Brazilian: a salary upwards of $6 million a year makes him the world's best-paid exponent of the Beautiful Game. Illustration for TIME by Hashim Akib.
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Winners
HUGO CHAVEZ
That's slick. Venezuelan cruises to reelection as President of world's third-largest oil exporter
GEORGE W. BUSH
It's out: presidential candidate wins support of GOP's largest
gay group after stormy run-ins
NELSON MANDELA
Inspirational South African agrees to mediate in Israel-Palestine peace talks
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Losers
SHIMON PERES
Israel's "Mr. Unelectable" does it again, losing presidential bid to relative unknown
SUHARTO
Indonesian ex-Prez formally charged with embezzling millions during 32-year tenure
MICK JAGGER
No satisfaction. Singer must reveal wealth in Brazilian model's child-support case
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Verbatim
"Two fried eggs in the gloaming, that's all I saw."
QUENTIN LETTS, London critic, praising model Jerry Hall's nude scene while panning the rest of her West End debut in The Graduate
"She was very happy because she thought they had come to protect us."
HAMDI SHABIU, father of 11-year-old Merita Shabiu, murdered by Frank Ronghi, a U.S. soldier with NATO in Kosovo. Ronghi was sentenced to life in prison
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"We have waited for justice for 26 years. We can wait yet another week."
VIVIANA DIAZ, spokeswoman for Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's alleged victims, as Chile's Supreme Court decides whether to strip the ex-dictator of immunity, allowing him to be tried for human rights abuses during his 1973-90 régime
"I do not take showers."
JANET LEIGH, star of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and victim in its famous bathroom murder scene, on the film's 40th anniversary
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