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FEBRUARY 5, 2001 VOL. 157 NO. 5
Spotlight
AN UPHILL BATTLE . . . BUT WHO WILL FOLLOW? Singer Bono of U2 and other celebs have swarmed Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, reminding the über-monied about the under monied. Bono's cause: debt relief for poor countries. Illustration for TIME by Paul Slater.
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Winners
AL GORE
Ex-U.S. Vice President becomes college prof—reading, writing and vote counting?
MARK KNOPFLER
Call it the Guitar-soloasaurus—scientists name a dinosaur after Dire Straits' ex-leader
JENNIFER CAPRIATI
Rehab, volley, comeback. The scandal-plagued tennis star lands on top Down Under
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Losers
JONATHAN KING
British pop mogul is charged with sex crimes against boys. And we thought his songs were bad
ERNESTO GAMARRA OLIVARES
Smile for the camera. Peruvian corruption fighter quits after he is filmed taking a bribe
CALVIN WILSON
Burglar's skeleton is found 16 years after he vanished—lodged in a chimney
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Verbatim
"The only way to be optimistic about Japan is to look at the charts upside down."
KENNETH COURTIS,
vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (Asia), saying the country is a major risk to world growth, at the World Economic Forum in Davos
"He's like a bull in a china shop that goes in smashing everything."
NABIL SHAATH,
chief Palestinian negotiator, underlining the dangers of Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon winning prime ministerial elections Feb. 6
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" George W. Bush is clearly the best thing to happen to political humorists since—well, since Bill Clinton."
DANIEL KURTZMAN,
reporter-turned-political humorist for the website About.com
"I did not order anyone to be killed."
AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE,
ex-Chilean dictator, denying that he ordered the execution of more than 70 political prisoners in 1973
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