WINNERS & LOSERS

By KATHLEEN ADAMS, MELISSA AUGUST, CHRISTIANE BIRKNER, CHRISTINE GORMAN, LINA LOFARO, MICHAEL QUINN, ALAIN SANDERS AND SRIBALA SUBRAMANIAN

[winners]

OSCAR WILDE He's finally memorialized in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner THE WEINSTEIN BROTHERS Their Miramax Films nabs a leading 22 Oscar nominations

GERALD FORD Causes less spectator damage than George Bush in presidential golf game/bloodletting

[losers]

BILL GATES Angry judge reopens feds' antitrust deal with Microsoft

JOHNNIE COCHRAN O.J. lawyer learns ex-gal pal has retained a palimony expert

OLD SPARKY New York's electric chair to be put out to pasture in favor of lethal injection