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APRIL 24, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 16
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SCOOPED UP Unilever may have gobbled up socially conscious ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry's for $326 million, but the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant promises to maintain the brand's all-natural community flavor. Only time will tell if the firm can keep the competition licked. Illustration for TIME by Ed Gabel
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Winners VIJAY SINGH Tiger who? Masterful at Augusta, Fijian golfer wins the game's most prestigious tournament WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire Hathaway CEO makes $570 million the same week the market loses $1 trillion HUGH HEFNER Pajama-wearing founder of the Playboy empire gets street named after him in Chicago |
Losers SUHARTO Former Indonesian President put under "city arrest" for six months as corruption probe continues LENNOX LEWIS British boxer, stripped of World Boxing Association belt, is no longer the undisputed champ MONICA LEWINSKY Former intern dropped as face for the ad campaign of Jenny Craig weight-loss centers |
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" No person is above the law, even the President of the United States." ROBERT RAY, independent counsel, on the possibility of indicting Bill Clinton after he leaves office next year " All we get are crumbs that fall off the table of the rich." ROBERT MUGABE, Zimbabwean President, at the first summit of the G-77 group |
" I will still continue to write what I find to be true history. I can't be intimidated." DAVID IRVING, British historian, after suffering a humiliating libel defeat for distorting the facts of the Holocaust " The game has to be rid of this cancer." TIM MAY, chief executive of the Australian Cricketers' Association, commenting on allegations that South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was involved in match-fixing |
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