Winners & Losers: Aug. 14, 1995

WINNERS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Stuffy old Scarlet Letter gets what it always needed: Demi Moore and a happier ending

WARREN BUFFETT Mickey Mouse merger boosts his ABC stock $400 million in a day

UNABOMBER Author published in N.Y. Times and Washington Post is offered column in Penthouse

LOSERS

MICHAEL JACKSON Sales of HIStory flag; he does a nude scene in new video; sales of HIStory plummet

BARBARA BOXER Senator loses battle to air Bob Packwood's laundry in public

THE N.R.A. After months of shooting itself in the foot, gun group sees its membership fall 8%

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