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Culture on Demand: Black is Beautiful The American Express black card is the ultimate status symbol Asia Buzz: Should the Net Be Free? Web heads want it all -- for nothing JAPAN: Failed Revolution Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori clings to power as dissidents in his party finally decide not to back a no-confidence motion Cover: Endgame? After Florida's controversial ballot recount, Bush holds a 537-vote lead in the state, which could give him the election |
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FEBRUARY 28, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 8
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AMERICAN NEOGOTHIC: Though 72 years old, Oscar still seems to revel in mid-life crises. Bravura
performances from Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening as an undersexed, overstressed suburban couple won neophyte director Sam Mendes' American Beauty eight Academy Award nominations. Illustration for TIME by Michele Chang |
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Winners GEORGE MICHAEL Court rejects L.A. cop's bid to sue pop star for $10 million over nudge-nudge, wink-wink video FRANKLIN THE TURTLE Canada's star reptile wins Sears merchandising deal, will soon be household name in the U.S. MIR SPACE STATION Investors will turn problem platform into holiday spot and film set. For Armageddon 2? |
Losers WOLFGANG SCHÄUBLE Christian Democratic leader resigns over involvement in the financial scandal that sank Kohl JIM CARREY And the winner isn't... Despite acclaim for Man on the Moon, he's snubbed by Oscar--again! MARS POLAR LANDER NASA declares awol spacecraft dead as faint signals are found to be terrestrial in origin |
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"The U.S. is brainwashing the world... even Russians." LEONID IVASHOV, a general in Moscow's Defense Ministry, speaking at a Geneva conference "I am like a cat sitting on a box of mice, thinking about which one I'll eat first." KARLHEINZ SCHREIBER, arms dealer involved in Germany's finance scandal and now free on bail after doing time for tax evasion, on plans to take revenge on the Christian Democrats who fingered him |
"There are laws that don't let people have their own lives, and we want to change that." MOHAMMED REZA KHATAMI, brother of Iran's reformist President, on the eve of parliamentary elections "In the area of entertainment journalism, the idea of truth basically goes out the window." GEORGE LUCAS, Star Wars director, speaking to students at the University of California, Berkeley |
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