Person of the Week

Person of the Week
HOLDING ON It’s tough enough being a politician in one of the most dangerous regions in the world. When the U.S. President calls for your removal, maybe it’s time to think retirement. But Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says he’s not going anywhere, and insists he’ll be up for re-election next January

Noted
“Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born.”
GEORGE W. BUSH,
U.S. President, in a speech that tied removal of Yasser Arafat to U.S. support for a Palestinian state

Prime Number
82 percent of high-ranking executives in the U.S. say they cheat at golf, according to a survey by Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Omen
The Uttar Pradesh Cow Protection Commission in India is urging people to smear themselves in cow dung for protection from radiation burns in case of nuclear

Winners
YAO MING
Chinese star first in NBA draft. Yao will teach Shaq the meaning of the phrase ni hao while Shaq will teach Yao the meaning of the word pain
SADDAM HUSSEIN
Dictator’s novels will be taught in Iraq’s schools. Saddam would have preferred Oprah’s Book Club, but this should help sales as well
COUNT ALVARO DE MARICHALAR
Spanish aristocrat crosses the Atlantic on a jet ski. He will return from the Indies with his craft laden with gold and spices
Losers
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
Tennis fem-bot upset at Wimbledon, then blows her top at a BBC interviewer. Her male fans are surprised to find she plays tenniswho knew?
KEN LIVINGSTONE
London mayor allegedly pushes tabloid reporter over a wall. Britons are excitedthey haven’t had a two-fisted politician since Thatcher
BERNIE EBBERS
Ex-WorldCom CEO summoned by U.S. Congress. That whole bull market thing during the ’90s? Never mind. It was an accounting error

Milestones
By JESSI HEMPEL

DIED. JOHN ENTWISTLE, 57, virtuoso bass player who cofounded The Who, of an apparent heart attack; in Las Vegas. One of the seminal British rock groups to emerge in the early 1960s, The Who were known for their stellar guitar playing, onstage mayhem, and for inventing the rock opera with the celebrated Tommy. The band members retired in 1982 but continued to reunite for tours.
DIED. ANN LANDERS, 83, whose real name was Esther (“Eppie”) Pauline Friedman Lederer; in Chicago. Landers’ syndicated column delivered saucy advice on topics ranging from household problems, such as how to hang a toilet-paper roll, to sexual inquiries, such as what to do about cross-dressing husbands. It reached an estimated 90 million people daily through 1,200 publications.
DIED. LIONEL BERNSTEIN, 82, a white antiapartheid activist; in Oxford, England. Bernstein stood trial for sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect.
DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing.
DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England. As holder of the office of earl marshal, the duke was the country’s senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen.
DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea for a single European currency; in Luxembourg.
SENTENCED. OLEG KALUGIN, 67, in absentia, to 15 years in a maximum security prison for passing state secrets to the U.S.; in Moscow. Kalugin was found guilty of undermining national security for disclosing state secrets in his 1994 book First Directorate, which he co-wrote with a U.S. journalist. Kalugin, who lives in Washington D.C., ran the KGB external counterintelligence section in the late 1970s and then sided with the democratic movement in Russia in the late 1980s.
RELEASED. LAI CHANGXING, alleged Chinese smuggler, from a Canadian jail; in Vancouver. Lai, who is now under house arrest, has been fighting to remain in Canada as a political refugee since he fled China in 1999. He had been jailed following a decision by Canadian immigration officials to deny him refugee status, saying he was trying to avoid Chinese prosecution for smuggling an estimated $10 billion worth of goods into China. Lai is appealing the ruling.

Eulogy
By RICHARD CORLISS

Until 1967, Hong Kong films were largely musicals and comedies headed by female stars. But that was B.C.C.: before CHANG CHEH . With his 1967 One-Armed Swordsman, Chang created a scowling hero who turned his disability into a vengeanceand Hong Kong film into the violent, burly, balletic male preserve it has been ever since. Born Chang Yi-ying in China’s Zhejiang province, this energetic craftsman wrote romance novels, film reviews and a newspaper column under three different pseudonyms. Then he set about defining the Hong Kong action movie. Such swaggering epics as The Savage 5, Shaolin Avengers and The Five Venoms filled theater and TV screens around the world, schooling a generation in the intricacies of righteous machismo. He made stars of Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng, and mentored his assistant director (later action master) John Woo. When Chang died June 22, at 79, from pneumonia, the Shaw Brothers studios paid for the funeral of its most prolific, pioneering auteur. In Hong Kong, movie spirits are at half-mast.