Winners & Losers

WINNERS

OLIVER NORTH

James Baker is latest G.O.P. hopeful to kiss the colonel's ring

MICHAEL CRICHTON

His ER is an NBC hit; his Jurassic Park a home-video behemoth

WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS

Senate Republicans keep the Capitol safe for buttonholing

LOSERS

GERBER PRODUCTS

10 million pacifiers recalled for annoying potential to choke

MAO ZEDONG

New book questions his sexual ethics and oral hygiene

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

) His Peter and the Wolf panned in Eureka, CA, as unfair to animals