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WINNERS
1. With the tears from Keiko's departure still drying
on their cheeks, Oregonians obsessed with giant mammals
got a new mascot when Chendra, a half-ton Asian elephant
fresh off the plane from Borneo, arrived at the Oregon Zoo.
2. The Lents Community Center, not your typical
philanthropic target, got a $1 million present from Hollywood
Video CEO Mark Wattles--a generous gift from a man who recently
bailed out of Stumptown and moved to Las Vegas.
3. Snails, salamanders, red tree moles and other
obscure forest species have a better chance of survival
now that environmentalists and the Forest Service have successfully
negotiated their way out of a lawsuit. The Forest Service
has agreed to follow the dictates of the Northwest Forest
Plan and find out what lives in a forest before cutting
it down.
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LOSERS
1. While Duck and Beaver fans look forward to holiday
bowls, supporters of the Portland State Vikings will
be left crying in their beer at the Cheerful Tortoise. The
NCAA post-season selection committee chose major-market
juggernauts Northern Arizona and Montana ahead of the Vikings
for the Division 1-AA post-season playoffs--even though
the PSU pillagers are the highest-scoring, highest-ranked
(in their division) team in Oregon.
2. City firefighters double-faulted last
week when Chief Robert Wall forbade them to play basketball
or tennis while on duty. A recent report listed firehouse
hoops injuries as the fourth-leading cause of lost work
days, making the chief's decision a slam-dunk. Pinochle,
anyone?
3. Bad week for the local assassin industry:
A Multnomah County jury found ruined investor Daniel Jenkins
Jr. guilty of soliciting the murder of stockbroker Gerry
Bidwell after losing $50,000 on a bad stock trade. Meanwhile,
police arrested Lake Oswegan Sarah Ater after she allegedly
agreed to pay an undercover detective to whack her ex-boyfriend--while
out on bail in connection with a previous murder-for-hire
accusation.
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