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NOVEMBER 29, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 21
Spotlight
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT Jesse Jackson was arrested in Decatur, Illinois, after protesting the expulsion of six black teens for a football-game brawl. The '60s-style confrontation drew attention to the harsh disciplinary regimes in some American schools in the wake of the Columbine shooting tragedy. Illustration for TIME by Steve Carver
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Winners
FIDEL CASTRO
Holding Ibero-American summit in Cuba is his coolest coup. Guests get a deaf ear, he gets photo ops
LENNOX LEWIS
Re-unification! After years of divided titles, boxing has an undisputed world champion
GEORGE MITCHELL
Score one for soft diplomacy. Ex-U.S. Senator may just bring peace to Northern Ireland
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Losers
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Michael Jackson will play master of the macabre in the bio-pic. Quoth the Raven: "Say it ain't so!"
BEN JOHNSON
Banned Canadian sprinter fails yet another drug exam. Anybody think of giving him an IQ test?
PHOOLAN DEVI
There's no honor among thieves. Former Indian bandit queen is robbed at gunpoint
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Verbatim
"Hijacking is done at gun point. In this case, the whole democratic process has been hijacked."
MUHAMMED NAWAZ SHARIF, Ousted Pakistani PM, from a Karachi court where he is facing charges including hijacking and kidnapping
"We were talking from bathroom to bathroom."
CHARLENE BARSHEFSKY, U.S. Trade Representative, describing how she called Bill Clinton during talks in Beijing while he was showering and she was outside a ladies' room |
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"The British people are jealous because they have no wine and it's raining all the time."
JACQUES MELAC, French bar owner, referring to the latest trade spat: a U.K. boycott of Beaujolais wine
"Any pilot who sees he is heading toward trouble will say prayers, whether he is a Muslim or a Christian."
YUSRI HAMID, pilot, rejecting speculation that EgyptAir flight 990 was a suicide mission
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