Notebook: Dec. 29, 1997

THE WINNERS & LOSERS OF 1997

[WINNERS]

ELLEN DEGENERES Some year: leaves the closet, raises her ratings, finds a girlfriend and is hugged by Al Gore. Too bad the show is still weak

MARS PATHFINDER Live pictures from Mars. Another amazing triumph for good old American nerd-how

DA BULLS Neither Alan Greenspan nor an October shudder halted momentum. And Michael Jordan's team also did well

TONY BLAIR The man led a Labour landslide, then helped humanize the royal family

HANK HILL From the creator of Beavis and Butt-head comes a middle-class hero. What in the hell?

GEORGE SOROS Speculation has its...

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