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DECEMBER 11, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 23

Spotlight

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD With less than 50% of readers paying the $1-per-chapter fee to read horror maven Stephen King's serialized e-novel The Plant, the author buried the project after Chapter 6 and announced a return to the printed word. Illustration for TIME by Tom Fluharty

Winners
JEFFREY IMMELT
The torch goes to... Jack Welch names nice guy and protégé to succeed him as GE chief
GARY KREMEN
American entrepreneur wins back prized Web address sex.com after legal battle
MARIO PUZO
Late author of The Godfather gets high six-figure sum for unfinished novel
  Losers
LENNY KRAVITZ
Police hunting for black bank robber pick up and handcuff rock star in a case of mistaken identity
FERNANDO MARTIN
Spain's Paralympics official quits amidst claims that some of his medalists weren't disabled at all
JURGEN SCHREMPP
DaimlerChrysler head is lashed by shareholders over lawsuits and plunging stock

Verbatim
"The Netherlands is the first country to legalize euthanasia since the Nazis."
MONIKA SCHWEIHOFF, doctor, criticizing a decision by the Dutch parliament to legalize mercy killings

"He was wearing cowboy boots and dirty jeans and was chewing tobacco that was drooling out of his mouth."
ANDREW CARD, chief of staff-in-waiting to George W. Bush, recalling their first meeting in 1979
  "This election showed Romania is ready to be carried out on a stretcher."
SILVIU BRUCAN, veteran political analyst, after an ex-communist and far-right nationalist were confirmed as frontrunners to the presidency on Dec. 10

"He's learning to be a better dad. He was brought up without much emotion or affection."
SARAH FERGUSON, Duchess of York, on her former husband, Prince Andrew

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