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WINNERS & LOSERS
[WINNERS]
GORAN IVANISEVIC Wild card Balkanizes Wimbledon. Croatia can now root for someone other than war-crime indictees
DONALD RUMSFELD Swing and a hit. Fourth Star Wars test a success. Program’s batting average now .500
KING SIMEON II Bulgarian King, deposed in 1946 at age 9, back as Prime Minister. Hope for Al Gore!
[LOSERS]
DENNIS HASTERT Speaker, formerly Mr. Nice Guy, mugs campaign-finance-reform vote. Even Newt never did this
KARL ROVE W.’s Svengali implicated in idea to let Salvation Army ban gays. Back to Texas by fall?
JENNIFER LOPEZ Draws fire for using N word in new song. As if The Wedding Planner wasn’t bad enough
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