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JANUARY 29, 2001 VOL. 157 NO. 4
Spotlight
PARTY OF ONE Ten years after Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein marked the anniversary of the Gulf War pretty much the same way he started it, by denouncing Western powers as "evil doers" and pledging Iraq would eventually triumph. Illustration for TIME by Bernard Chau.
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Winners
GEORGE W. BUSH
Move over Bubba. The former Texas Governor finally gets the keys to the White House
RENATA BARROS
Britney-clone is a hit in Brazil. You can't stop teen pop, but you'd hope to contain it
PAUL NEWMAN
British film experts name ol' blue eyes the best leading man ever. Sauces ain't bad, either
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Losers
JESSE JACKSON
American preacher fathered child during extramarital affair. And he counseled Clinton over Monica?
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA
Hiding assets may cost Thai-coon the prime ministership as court agrees to try him
MARILYN MANSON
Shock rocker into drag splits with fiancé. Expect a legal tussle over the girdles
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Verbatim
"What have we done that God has punished us like this?"
YESICA DEL CARMEN BERRIOS,
coffee picker, reacting to the killer earthquake that struck El Salvador
"Do you think I like sitting with Arafat? Believe me, I don't enjoy it."
HUD BARAK,
Israeli Prime Minister, saying in a television commercial that the only path to peace was through negotiations with the Palestinians
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" Kosovo is an unfinished peace. If American soldiers leave, it's war."
BATON HAXHIU,
editor of Kosovo's Koha Ditore newspaper, on suggestions that U.S. President George W. Bush wants to pull troops out of the Balkans
"I'll still be taking the missus to the local pub for a drink."
GUY RITCHIE,
British film director, on his determination to remain down-to-earth despite being married to singer Madonna
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