Notebook

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Rachel Dry, Daren Fonda, Michael Jackson, Ben Nugent, Michele Orecklin, Julie Rawe, John Rosenblatt, Josh Tyrangiel, Alexandra Wolfe

WINNERS & LOSERS

[WINNERS]

DAVID BOIES Napster lawyer wins a temporary stay to keep Web music site up. (So do your downloading quickly)

BILL GATES Gives $40M to the homeless, their biggest gift. It was that, or a bit of his lakefront manse

YASSER ARAFAT Firm on Jerusalem, he gets big cheers at home. But, uh, sooner or later you gotta deal

[& LOSERS]

JEFF BEZOS Amazon dot bomb. Lost COO. Stock falling. Don't make us regret that Man of the Year thing

JAMES BAKER Cheney is Veep. Schwarzkopf & Powell speak at Philly. Who's the only Gulf Warrior still MIA?

JERRY SPRINGER Man charged with murder after he and ex-wife face off on show. Enough said