Notebook

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Douglas Root, Alain Sanders and Josh Tyrangiel

WINNERS & LOSERS

[WINNERS] RICK LAZIO Hillary's opponent gets good, oh-so-moderate buzz. Your luck is positively Clintonesque.

ROBERT ECKERT Kraft Foods exec gets top job at Mattel. Perk: gets chauffeured to work in Hot Wheels limo

BETTE MIDLER The divine gets her own CBS show. Big TV career or pit stop on way to dinner theater?

[& LOSERS]

TONYA HARDING Gets three days for throwing hubcap at boyfriend's head. Uh ... no punch line needed

DR. LAURA United Airlines mag rejects your ads; advertisers drop. Must be a liberal conspiracy

FODAY SANKOH Captured: Sierra Leone rebel leader. Couldn't happen to a nicer child-abducting guy