W I N N E R S DAVID DUVAL Achieving 13 under par in Palm Springs, golfer becomes the third ever to break 60 on PGA Tour PALESTINIANS Gain their own country code for international calls--now all they need is their own country TED HUGHES A bit tardy for the champagne, but late poet's Birthday Letters wins coveted Whitbread prize

L O S E R S VENUS WILLIAMS Tennis phenom falters when beads from her braids fall off--she loses a point, her cool and the match URBAN CHINESE Hold your breath! Nine cities in the People's Republic clog new list of world's 10 most polluted PRINCE HASSAN Heir apparently-not. King Hussein un-names brother and picks son as Jordan's next ruler

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"Today, I feel Mexican!" Pope John Paul II, 78-year-old Polish pontiff, ending a speech in Mexico City "We do have a summer. Last year, I remember, it was a Wednesday." Helga-Marie Johnsen, Norwegian, on the shift of seasons in the Arctic Circle "I'm going to sneak off and smoke a cigar, but don't tell anybody." Henry Hyde, House Judiciary Committee leader, on what he'll do when the impeachment trial ends

"I have to die this year." Mildred Warner-Blake, 88-year-old, whose Y2K worries include her tomb-stone, pre-engraved with "19--" "This has to be an imperfect process and an imperfect peace, but it is better than no process and no peace at all." Tony Blair, British PM, on the implementation of Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement