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JANUARY 22, 2001 VOL. 157 NO. 3
Spotlight
FACE-TO-FACE Burma's military rulers have been holding hush-hush talks with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, offering hopes that the regime might soften its harsh, 11-year rule. But the popular dissident remains under house arrest. Illustration for TIME by Henrick Drescher.
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Winners
OSAMA BIN LADEN
Wanted Saudi terrorist marries off son, bathes in a father's pride and pokes fun at the U.S.
ANDI
Meet the first genetically modified monkey. (Does he throw genetically modified turds?)
MEIMEI
She's still got it: at 20, Siberian tigress in China stuns keepers by becoming pregnant
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Losers
BRITNEY SPEARS
Crop-top-wearing U.S. pop star is voted worst-dressed gal in Mr. Blackwell's annual fashion poll
JIRI HODAC
Head of Czech TV quits after a wave of street protests. Did he broadcast too much Matlock?
LINDA CHAVEZ
Déja vu: Housing an illegal alien costs her a cabinet post
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Verbatim
" I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success. "
THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON,
Microsoft trial judge, describing company chairman Bill Gates
" I've had wonderful experiences [with drugs]. I mean, really wonderful."
KEANU REEVES,
Hollywood actor, crediting drugs for "personal epiphanies"
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"Any attempt to ... disrupt China by the despicable means of fabricating material and distorting facts will be futile."
ZHU BANGZAO,
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, responding to the release of the book The Tiananmen Papers
"There is no choice but for you to divide this land into two states for two people."
BILL CLINTON,
U.S. President, in a last-ditch drive for Middle East peace
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