Notebook

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Tim Blair, Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, Eric Silver, David Spitz, Joel Stein, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

WINNERS & LOSERS

[WINNERS]

AUGUSTO PINOCHET English court says he can be tried on abuses after 1988. Lucky he got most of his crimes done early

ROMANO PRODI Tapped to be European Union's chief executive, a.k.a. top banana in the trade wars

JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN Shows who's boss in ratings and negotiates richer contract. You got a problem with that?

[& LOSERS]

JIANG ZEMIN Says Swiss hosts "lost a good friend" by not silencing Tibetan protests. That's what friends do?

WAL-MART Teletubbies creators sue over chain's Bubbly Chubbies. Go ahead, make Laa-Laa's day

DR. JACK KEVORKIAN Court finds suicide doctor a murderer. Too bad he wasn't a killer lawyer