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JANUARY 15, 2001 VOL. 157 NO. 2
Spotlight
IT'S LIKE PEE-WEE HERMAN PICKING UP AN OSCAR BID ... Bad-boy rapper Marshall Mathers, a.k.a. Eminem, gets four nominations for the 43rd Grammy Awards--and the Recording Academy is usually critized for being too conservative. Illustration for TIME by Steve brodner.
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Winners
NORMAN MINETA
Hey, a Democrat! Asian-American makes history by jumping from Clinton's cabinet to Bush's
ARIEL SHARON
He's back. Polls show Israeli superhawk leads incumbent Barak in race to be P.M.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
Show me the money! Judge upholds $475 million award to former Playboy playmate
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Losers
RUPERT MURDOCH
Another dotbomb. Media mogul's News Corp. shuts online division and axes 200 jobs
ADOLF HITLER
Ex-dictator is voted the most hated person in Madame Tussaud's annual poll
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Tatooed singer angers leading New Zealand Maori for "swiping" his tribe's mark
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Verbatim
"I am ready to go to jail as long as the biggest sinner goes with me."
LUIS SINGSON,
Philippine provincial governor, claiming at Joseph Estrada's impeachment trial that he helped him pocket bribes
"We were trying to keep from laughing out aloud and embarrassing Senator Clinton."
BILL CLINTON,
U.S. President, on what he and daughter Chelsea were doing during wife Hillary's senatorial swearing-in
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"If you're at a party and tell people you are a mathematician, it is the worst turnoff you can imagine."
JOHN BERRY,
British professor, commenting on research showing that math teachers are viewed as friendless nerds
"Only a miracle can produce a full deal in the remaining days of the Clinton presidency."
SHLOMO BEN-AMI,
Israeli Foreign Minister, on prospects for a quick peace accord in the Middle East
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