Verbatim

By Melissa August, Amanda Bower, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Randy Hartwell, Daniel S. Levy, Ellin Martens, Josh Tyrangiel and Rebecca Winters

WINNERS & LOSERS

[WINNERS]

LOUIS FREEH Bush keeps current FBI boss. Now, about that Olympic bomber still running around the woods...

JOSH HEUPEL Okla. QB loses Heisman to Fla. State QB, then smokes him in Orange Bowl to win nat'l title

MARY MATALIN Crossfire co-host named Cheney adviser. Does he know she yells a lot?

[& LOSERS]

GRAY DAVIS Calif. Gov. faces outages, soaring utility rates. Better get the lights turned on before 2002 campaign

GEORGE MAGAZINE J.F.K. Jr.'s mag ends run. Making pols hip in Bush era would have been hard anyway

VLADIMIR GUSINSKY Anti-Putin media mogul faces new charges. A big nyet for press freedom?