W I N N E R S CELINE DION With her ballad from Titanic, Canadian diva tops Britain's charts--of most popular funeral songs HENRY O. FLIPPER West Point's first black grad gets posthumous pardon from Clinton, as army discharge was racial ROBERTO BENIGNI Life is beautiful for the director of highest-grossing foreign language film ever in North America

L O S E R S ARETHA FRANKLIN Owing more than a little respect, soul singer reportedly racks up more than $1 million in unpaid bills BUCKINGHAM PALACE Royals admit to sedating their pretty ponies during processions, but just the "skittish" ones DAVID WELLS Pitch a perfect baseball game and ... lose your job? Yankees' ace is traded to Toronto

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"Many women want to bear my children. It's O.K. They all are welcome." Joseph Estrada, Philippine President, after being asked if he is the father of a teen beauty queen "It seems like the best way to get a new embassy is to have yours blown away." William J. Crowe, head of a U.S. State Department investigation into last year's African embassy bombings, scolding Congress for a lack of funding for embassy security

"If you're going to cannibalize someone, you might as well cannibalize someone in the family." Craig Barrett, head of Intel, on whether the new Pentium III computer chip will eat into sales of the firm's other products "We will not let you touch Kosovo." Boris Yeltsin, Russian President, warning the U.S. against launching air strikes on Serbia as negotiators sought a peace agreement