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SEPTEMBER 13, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 10

Spotlight

WOMAN ON A MISSION: Irked Attorney General Janet Reno sends U.S. Marshals into Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to grab a tape, as her feud with FBI director Louis Freeh heats up over the tardy appearance of evidence in the 1993 Branch Davidian raid controversy.


Winners
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
U.S. Secretary of State's last-minute diplomacy gets Mideast peace talks back on track
ANDY COLE
Man U striker answers national-team snub by thumping in four goals in one game
GOUAIS BLANC
DNA test proves this much-derided wine grape is parent of esteemed chardonnay
  Losers
JIANG ZEMIN
Odd man out. Wax statue of Prez is missing from Tiananmen museum exhibit of "Great Men of China"
SOUTH PARK INFANTS SCHOOL
English academy changes its name to The Orchards after crude TV show becomes cult hit
EBAY
Insides trading! Online auction house orders stop to illegal bidding on human kidney


Verbatim
"You must be morons to send me this letter!"
Dr. Bernard Lewinsky, Monica's father, replying to a form letter sent by Clinton's legal-defense fund hitting him up for a donation

" If a woman is on the pill, I'd like to ask her: 'Are you a prostitute or something?' "
Tomoaki Yatabe, illustrating the reputation of the recently legalized birth-control pill among some Japanese men

  "If anyone denies religious stipulations, this person is an apostate and the punishment for such a person is clear."
Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader, arguing that anyone who questions the Islamic rationale for the death penalty should be executed

"I studied literature in school. I'm a poet, not a structural engineer."
Veli Gucer, Turkish contractor whose apartment complex collapsed in last month's earthquake, resulting apparently in hundreds of deaths


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