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NOVEMBER 22, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 20
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PICASSOMANIA. The artist's Woman Seated in a Garden, a brightly colored 1938 portrait of his lover Dora Maar, went to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby's auction for $49.5 million, the highest price for a Picasso since Pierrette's Wedding fetched $51.7 million in 1989 at the height of the art boom. Illustration by Andrea Ventura for TIME; AFP--Christie's; AFP--Sotheby's
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Winners TIGER WOODS With four straight golf tournament victories, he's the first to earn $6 million in one season BRITNEY SPEARS Baby One More Time. Teen sensation takes four honors at the MTV Europe Music Awards SERGE GIRARD The French Forrest Gump breaks record for 4,000-km run across Australia |
Losers JACKIE CHAN Mr. Nice Guy hero finally admits to "playful" extramarital fling with pregnant former beauty queen JOHN HOWARD No torch for you. Australia's PM bows to Queen, whose representative will open Sydney Games HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON West Bank visit offends Israelis and Palestinians. C'mon, do Belfast and go 4 for 4 |
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"The other day I was talking to Utkir Sultanov. You know, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan." AL GORE, U.S. Vice President, spoofing the foreign policy quiz that tripped up George W. Bush "The Wall was not brought crashing to the ground in Washington, Bonn or Moscow. The fearless people in the East forced it to cave in." GERHARD SCHRÖDER, , German Chancellor, marking the 10th anniversary of the Berlin barrier's demise |
"Your majesty, everyone wants a pound of your flesh." NELSON MANDELA, former South African President, welcoming Queen Elizabeth II to his country by taking her arm "We are trained to fight in battle against enemies, not against Jews." GENERAL MOSHE YAALON, Israeli military man, on the evacuation of Jewish settlers from West Bank outposts |
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