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WINNERS
1. The New England Journal
of Medicine handed assisted-suicide advocates
a big win last week by backing their claim that the procedure
isn't fraught with trauma for patients.
2. Nineteen-year-old mayoral candidate Jake Oken-Berg
gave voters something to look forward to this week when
he persuaded Mayor Vera Katz to debate him on April
5. The bad news: Katz demanded that the other seven mystery
candidates for her office be allowed to join them.
3. Ballsy 17-year-old Brian Peters is forcing
Gresham school officials to take a hard look at how they
treat gay students. Peters' penchant for girly clothes is
causing fits at Barlow High School, sparking a real-world
discussion of free expression out in the 'burbs.
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LOSERS
1. It's hard to say who are the bigger losers, high-school
students who busted their butts to take the tests for
the Certificate of Initial Mastery, or the bureaucrats
who, nine months later, concede that they still don't know
whether the kids passed.
2. Southeast residents who opposed Sunnyside Centenary
Methodist Church's homeless feeding programs got another
dose of negative news coverage last week. Painted as villains,
they now fear they can't get a fair hearing before City
Council March 1.
3. Didn't you used to be front-page news? Tonya
"Knuckles" Harding goes upside her boyfriend's head
and finds a novel use for a hub cap, but only rates page
D5 in the Northwest's largest daily.
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