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AUGUST 21-28, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 7/8
Spotlight
BEHIND EVERY MAN Lynne Cheney and Hadassah Lieberman, wives of this year's U.S. vice-presidential candidates, aren't the kind to stay home baking cookies. Capable and outspoken, the potential second ladies will be helping to call the plays. Illustration for TIME by Glynis Sweeny.
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Winners
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
Gore's barrier-breaking pick for Veep puts new life into what was becoming a dull campaign
ANDRAS TAMAS
Finally. Hungarian comes home after being institutionalized in Russia for half a century
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE
Ex-Prez's party wins control of Haiti legislature, propels him toward a 2000 comeback
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Losers
MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
Malaysian Prime Minister takes heat over ex-protégé Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy conviction
CHUBA OKADIGBO
Nigerian upper-house leader impeached as country's anti-corruption drive gains steam
ALEXANDER TIKHONOV
No golds here. Olympian biathlete arrested for plotting to kill a Russian politician
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Verbatim
"To all the people of Indonesia, I humbly apologize for not being able to solve the prevailing problems during the last 10 months."
ABDURRAHMAN WAHID,
Indonesian President, turning over day-to-day responsibility to Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri
"I can't believe I barfed in Harrison Ford's helicopter."
SARAH GEORGE, ailing American hiker, after a bout of nausea mars her rescue by movie hero
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"Never underestimate the ability of the Australian public to act at the last moment."
JOHN O'NEILL, Olympic organizer, of the 2 million unsold tickets to the Sydney Games
"When you destroy the women of a people, you destroy that people."
CATHARINE A. MACKINNON, lawyer for Bosnian women, who won $745 million from Serbia's Radovan Karadzic for atrocities by his troops
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