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AUGUST 7, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 5
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PAIRED UP George W. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running
mate adds weight to the GOP ticket: the former Defense Secretary
has Washington experience and can probably name Pakistan's ruler.
But after three coronaries, does he have the heart for the job?
Illustration for TIME by Anita Kunz. |
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Winners LUIS FIGO Portuguese footballer switches clubs, becomes world's priciest player in $56 million deal YASSER ARAFAT Palestinian leader gets conqueror's welcome for holding firm at Camp David VLADIMIR GUSINKSY Vodka all round! Charges against Russian media mogul and Putin foe dropped |
Losers HANK BARRY Napster's CEO gets a lifeline from U.S. courts, but the writing's on the wall for his music-swap site EHUD BARAK Israeli PM returns empty-handed, knives are out, and he has no government KIM NOVAK Vertigo actress loses Oregon home, movie mementos in fire. Life's no Picnic |
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"The Republicans are calling [this] a Wizard of Oz ticket... Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain." JAY LENO, American talk show host, on the Republican presidential candidate and his new running mate "The new arrivals will have to accept our laws, our morals." JEAN-PIERRE CHEVENEMENT, French Interior Minister, on plans for a common E.U. policy on immigration |
"If you pay, the story rolls. If you don't, the story folds." STEPHEN KING, best-selling author, on his latest Web-only novel, The Plant "Used to think he was a rogue, but here at ARF he's so in vogue." MADELINE ALBRIGHT, U.S. Secretary of State, crooning about her North Korean counterpart at the Asian Regional Forum's closing-night follies |
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