Notebook

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Rachel Dry, Daren Fonda, Michael Jackson, Benjamin Nugent, Michele Orecklin, Julie Rawe, John Rosenblatt, Alexandra Wolfe

WINNERS & LOSERS

[WINNERS]

STEVE JOBS Thinking different pays off big time: Plenty of raves for new G4 Cube. Got a job for Gates?

RALPH NADER Time for an air bag. Rising polls mean Gore, media ready to start firing big guns

O.J. SIMPSON Online image rehab, starts AskOJ.com Wow, you paused from search for "real" killer

[& LOSERS]

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Ethnic-slur charge is trivial pursuit, but (Oy!) it's another headache you didn't need

PAT BUCHANAN Reform Party in chaos, polls are slipping. Time to try to slip back into the Crossfire?

TACO BELL CHIHUAHUA Adios, amigo. Chain bags pooch pitchman. An opening for that Pets.com pup?