Notebook
WINNERS & LOSERS CLEAN, REVERENT AND COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS
[WINNERS]
LARRY DOBY Jackie Robinson's American League counterpart finally wins election to the Hall of Fame
HELPFUL, HARDWORKIN' GAYS Courts say they can join the Boy Scouts, and be free from same-sex harassment on the job
LAKE CHAMPLAIN Congress creates a new Great Lake. Next up: making pigs fly
[& LOSERS]
PAUL SIMON Gutsy career move never comes together; trouble-plagued Capeman to fold with $11 million loss
BILL GATES Forget the antitrust battle: having to kowtow to mere Senators is distasteful enough
RUPERT MURDOCH Bans book, blames staff, pays settlement, eats crow
NEWSMAKER REUNION
Among the guests at TIME's 75th-anniversary party last week were 84 people who had appeared on the cover:
Lamar Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Terry Anderson, Lauren Bacall, F. Lee Bailey, Anne Bancroft, Christiaan Barnard, Bill Bradley, William Bratton, Tom Brokaw, Donald Budge, Joseph Califano, Steve Case, Dick Cavett, Carol Channing, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite, Tom Cruise, Patricia Nixon Cox, Michael Deaver, Michael E. DeBakey, William DeVries, Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Kelly Flinn, Jodie Foster, David Frost, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul Volcker, Andrew Weil, Raquel Welch and William Westmoreland.
CAPITALISM
THE BUCK NEVER STOPS Great economic news, Bill! The latest Moni-market indicators suggest a solid rise in g.d.p. (or gross domestic products). At a Manhattan gourmet shop, snackers can nibble a $20 Monica cookie. In New York a cable ad promotes a phone line to the Oval Orifice. In Germany a decorating company boasts that its "wall-to-wall carpets are knee-friendly and bugging-proof."
SAY WHAT?
Not yet a quarter old, 1998 already has distinguished itself in the realm of awkward excuses and unconvincing explanations. And with hardly anyone in the Lewinsky matter yet on public record, the best may be yet to come.
"This was not a sexual relationship. It was a very affectionate relationship, and I'm not trying to define when affection ends and sex begins." DNC chairman Roy Romer,describing the nature of his 16-year relationship with a woman 18 years his junior
"We were sitting around playing cards, and chairs would break underneath us." U.S. Olympic hockey player Jeremy Roenick, explaining why players' rooms were damaged
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