* Mrs. Hef Unwraps for Christmas: Kimberley...

* Mrs. Hef Unwraps for Christmas: Kimberley Conrad, the 26-year-old blond who became Mrs. Hugh Hefner last June, gives herself as a present to Playboy readers this year. In a special issue, Hefner’s bride is seen on 97 glossy pages.

* Hot shot: Accidents happen. That’s how South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell explained shooting and slightly injuring his guide during a hunting trip. Campbell said he was hunting quail Nov. 28 when one pellet of bird shot hit Harry Williams in the cheek and another hit him in the wrist. He was not seriously hurt. “I was out of sight down in a gully and the other fella was out of sight up one hill and I shot up at a quail and a couple of shots happened to hit him,” Campbell told a TV station.

* Right or wronged: Critics are taking potshots at Canadian author W.P. Kinsella for his latest book, “The Miss Hobbema Pageant,” which features short stories about Indians. A Canadian reviewer called the book “malicious” and “racist and sexist,” and said Kinsella isn’t who he writes about and hasn’t been where he sets his stories. Kinsella, author of the baseball novel “Shoeless Joe” on which the recent movie “Field of Dreams” was based, retorted: “Obviously, everything I write is fiction because I’ve never been there and I don’t know anything about the place.” Accepting that criticism, he said, would mean that “a white, male writer couldn’t write about anything except other white males and a woman couldn’t write about anything except women.”

* Fight ended: Eliana Martinez, the 8-year-old AIDS victim whose family battled for 2 1/2 years so she could attend school, was laid to rest with her Raggedy Ann doll after a procession took her casket past the Tampa, Fla., school and courthouse. The child, who died last week, was buried in a funeral full of balloons, songs, praise. Her adoptive mother, Rosa Martinez, won the long court battle to continue her education, but the mentally disabled child only went to school for three weeks before she grew too ill to continue.