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WINNERS
1. Jefferson High School,
perennial target of educational doomsayers, capped a storybook
boy's basketball season with the school's first championship
since 1972. Three neighborhood kids--Brandon Brooks,
Antone Jarrell and Jon Tinnon--transferred back
to lead the Demos' charge. Jefferson now needs to put the
same emphasis on luring academic all-stars back from other
city schools.
2. Local sushi engineers were gratified
last week to learn that the new $1.25 million "fish friendly"
turbines at Bonneville will continue to do much of their
chopping and slicing for them.
3. Despite getting trashed by Oregonian
columnist Steve Duin earlier this year and irritating more
than a few people at City Hall, City Commissioner Jim
Francesconi drew only two obscure challengers by the
March 7 filing deadline. Francesconi can thank the fact
that he is a campaign fund-raising machine, with an overstuffed
war chest of nearly $100,000 as of last September.
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LOSERS
1. After standing up to months of criticism
for his principled stand against admitting China to the
WTO, westside congressman David Wu took a hit last
week from the Federal Election Commission. The FEC criticized
accounting screw-ups in the freshman Democrat's 1998 campaign
against mutant Gen-Xer Molly Bordonaro.
2. Porn-addicted students at Oregon
state colleges, as well as music fans and stock-market buffs,
may soon be asked to save their Web-surfing for their home
computers. Internet use is so high at OSU and U of O that
machines there are moving like snails through mud.
3. Barbara Armstrong gave dog owners
a bad name when her three mutts attacked and nearly caused
the death of a senior citizen. Armstrong's dogs had reportedly
been cited for bad behavior three times in February before
last week's incident.
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