Word: gotten
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...profiled in the five issues of our TIME 100 series and on CBS News specials (and are now available as a book, People of the Century, from Simon & Schuster). We've done TV panels with Charlie Rose for his PBS show, had meetings with an array of historians and gotten millions (yes, really) of e-mails and votes online...
...Boris Yeltsin and his family. "Many of Yeltsin?s former aides believed he was psychologically incapable of letting go of the presidency," says Meier. "He and his family have long feared a Caucescu scenario, and there?s no doubt that he wouldn?t have quit unless he?d gotten all the immunity guarantees he needed." Yeltsin also asked Russia?s people for a New Year?s gift in return. "I want to beg forgiveness for your dreams that never came true," he said in an emotional TV address. "And also I would like to beg forgiveness for having not justified...
...commits murder and isn't caught," Minghella says. "But I also wanted to investigate what that actually means. At the end of the film, Ripley is imprisoned by the consequences of his own action. There's a difference between public accountability and private justice. He appears to have gotten away; he seems to get away with everything. In a way he's sentenced to freedom. It's painful to have this talent for escape, for being able to improvise one's way out of any situation. To Ripley, it's a curse...
...like to see Salt Lake City get its act together for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. It seems like the folks there are on the right track, having gotten rid of the side perks. Members of the organizing committee even have to bring their own lunches to meetings...
...Sweatshops has gotten a whole lot more victories. Living wage doesn't have that much to show for it," said PSLM member William W. Erickson...