NOTEBOOK

- By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders

Verbatim

"I trust in the hard way, for little has come to me except in the hard way."
--Senator Bob Dole

The Resignation

Winners

Bob Dole
Makeover from Beltway Insider to Outsider-on-the-Inside-Track revitalizes his campaign

Mark Helprin
Novelist helps the Senator write the most moving speech of the season so far

Senator Trent Lott
The majority whip is likely to beat out fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran to succeed Dole

& Losers

Newt Gingrich
The growing unpopularity of his 1994 revolution is a factor in Dole's self-imposed exile

Senator Thom Daschle
The minority leader hoped to make trouble for the G.O.P. nominee--but now Dole's gone

Sheila Burke
Future employment for Dole's powerful chief of staff may depend on November win--a big if

Clinton: Lost in Cyberspace

The alarm went out: the President was missing on the World Wide Web. Until about a month ago, the White House home page had a nifty feature allowing netizens to search an archive of the President's Saturday radio addresses. It was simple: type in a keyword--say "Medicare"--and the index would produce a list of all his speeches addressing that issue, even playing an audio segment of the speech cued to the subject. The easy-to-use index was a valuable resource. Maybe too valuable. Concerned that it might be used by political enemies for "opposition research," jittery Administration officials yanked the index and the audio in mid-April. Impassioned fans of the home page noticed the absence and E-mailed the White House, leading to the return of the features last week. Says Frank Reeder, director of the White House Office of Administration: "Occasionally we lapse into human frailty and make mistakes. When we do, we fix them."

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