Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Retrieving, after a black Labrador retriever named Bear jumped into a Michigan swimming pool to rescue a 14-month-old toddler who’d fallen in.

John Edwards, after his longtime mistress Rielle Hunter announced that she and the disgraced former presidential candidate “were no longer a couple.” In a new book, Hunter describes Edwards’s late wife, Elizabeth, as “a witch on wheels,” and has been blabbing intimate details of their relationship in interviews.

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Having it all, after Clark and Sharon Winslow of Belvedere, Calif., spent $4.2 million to buy the house next door—and demolished it. The home was partially obstructing their existing, $19 million home’s view of San Francisco Bay.

Bad week for:

Having it all, after the latest World Wealth Report found that the world’s millionaires’ combined wealth fell by 1.7 percent in 2011, the first decrease for high-net-worth individuals since the 2008 global economic crisis.

Snail mail, after the post office in Sugar Hill, N.H., cut back its hours from three hours a day to just 30 minutes. It’s now open from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m.

Jerry Sandusky, who was taunted by inmates after he was locked into his cell at the Centre County Correctional Facility, following his conviction for child molestation. Borrowing a line from Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the inmates sang, “Hey teacher, leave those kids alone.”