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OCTOBER 11, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 14
Spotlight
HOLIER THAN THOU: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani threatened to cut off public funding after the Brooklyn Museum of Art displayed a dung-stained portrait of the Virgin Mary. The Museum refuses to budge, and critics accuse Giuliani of populist posturing ahead of his 2000 senatorial race against Hillary Clinton. Illustration for TIME by Christian Clayton
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Winners
SPICE GIRLS
Oxford Dictionary of Quotationsadds pop profundity: "I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want"
YEGOR GAIDAR
Ex-Russian PM wins libel suit against hard-liner who accused him of stealing from state coffers
WARREN BEATTY
Actor declines to say whether he'll run for president--and still gets better press than Gore
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Losers
RICHARD BRANSON
British ad campaign starring an 84-year-old woman as "The Only Virgin" lands saucy tycoon in hot water
AMERICAN WEST
Airline fined $1,000 for moving blind passenger to coach after first-class objects to guide dog
DAN QUAYLE
With his decision to abandon race for White House, America will miss countless future jokes
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Verbatim
"I am being humiliated. I'm a gentleman who knows about honor."
AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, former Chilean dictator standing trial in Britain, rejecting charges that he had once tortured his enemies
"China's successes have been possible because of Marxism-Leninism."
FIDEL CASTRO, Cuban dictator, congratulating the People's Republic on its 50th anniversary
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"I'm packing my bags and learning country music."
TONY COELHO, Al Gore's campaign chairman, on the decision to move his boss's headquarters from Washington to Nashville
"I have eliminated the words 'foreign aid' from our vocabulary. These two words don't seem to excite a lot of people."
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, U.S. Secretary of State, on her effort to craft a spending bill that Congress can approve
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