Winners & Losers

WINNERS

QUAKER OATS

Frigid weather results in huge sales rise

VICTOR CHERNOMYRDIN

Russian Prime Minister in the ascendant as reformers bow out

MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA

Japanese PM averts government collapse with reform deal

LOSERS

MICHAEL JACKSON

Multimillion-dollar settlement will cost him credibility as well

RANDALL TERRY

Court's RICO decision may foil tactics of antiabortion leader

BOB PACKWOOD

Judge orders him to hand those diaries over to Senate