Notebook

By Daniel Eisenberg, Anita Hamilton, Michael Krantz, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin, Alain L. Sanders, Hiroko Tashiro and Susan Veitch

WINNERS & LOSERS

NOT OUTRAGEOUS IN ARKANSAS

[WINNERS]

BILL CLINTON That which doesn't kill him makes him stronger. But will we think of him as President or Houdini?

BOB BENNETT Gets knocks for not settling, bad reviews for his 60 Minutes bit, but in the last act he delivers

JAMES CARVILLE Clinton loyalist declared war on Starr; Round 1 is his

[& LOSERS]

PAULA JONES Maybe an object in Clinton's game, surely a pawn in someone else's. Who will give her $700,000 now?

SUSAN CARPENTER-McMILLAN The Madame Defarge of the CNN era finds a career: not spokeswoman but makeover artist

KENNETH STARR Not even his case but it's still a torpedo in his engine room

KNOTTY PROBLEMS

TIES TO MATCH To raise funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Stonehenge menswear company turned some sketches, bottom, from sports celebrities (Jerry Rice, Dick Vitale, Lesley Visser, Joe Theismann and others) into tie patterns, top. Can you match the artist to the sketch to the pattern?

Answers: Rice: C-1 Theismann: A-2 Visser: B-3 Vitale: D-4

NUMBERS

$3 million Amount earmarked for a documentary on infrastructure in the $217 billion highway bill passed last week

$700,000 Budget for The Long Way Home, this year's Academy Award-winning documentary

8,000 Number of students offered admission to the 1998 freshman class at the University of California, Berkeley

191 Number of black students offered admission to that class

1983 The last year so few blacks got in

13 Percentage of patients who underwent wrinkle-injection procedures in 1996 who were between ages 19 and 34

14 Percentage of patients who underwent wrinkle-injection procedures in 1996 who were age 18 or younger

6 Number of times Kentucky has won the NCAA basketball championship since 1949

5 Number of times, so far, that the New York Yankees have won the World Series the same year

Sources: Washington Post; Miami Herald; New York Times; San Francisco Examiner; American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons