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...addition to Brock and Fulwood, next year's fellows include Lorie Conway George from WCVB-TV in Boston, Frank Gibney Jr. of Newsweek, Maria Henson of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Jerry Kammer of The Arizona Republic, David Lewis of CNN, Katherine Molinski of Reuters, Alan K. Ota of The Oregonian in Portland, Melanie Sill of The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., Dan Stets of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Larry Tye of The Boston Globe
...home to supper. He tied them up, molested one, stabbed them both, then fled back to his apartment as police and ambulance sirens wailed in the distance. Dodd wrote about the thrill of it. "I was kind of afraid that I was going to get caught," he told the Oregonian. "And then as I watched the papers, I realized that the police didn't have any clues...
...Western voters, Bush may have miscalculated its effect. While he was applauded by the region's timber workers, many other Westerners realize that the issue of preserving the remaining fragments of old-growth forest is more complex than owls vs. lumberjacks. George Atiyeh, a former timberman and fourth-generation Oregonian, left the business after watching what clear-cuts have done to the Oregon landscape. "Either my eyes were lying, or I was kidding myself about logging being sustainable," he says. From the air, Oregon's national forests look far worse than the rain forests of Rondonia, Brazil, which has become...
...thrash out the rules by which medical priorities would be set, and then followed up with a random telephone survey of 1,000 households to make sure citizens agreed with the resulting proposal. Finally, they submitted for Washington's approval an innovative plan that would have provided virtually every Oregonian with universal -- albeit somewhat restricted -- health-care coverage before the end of the year...
...Oregonian is sensitive to the feelings of those in our society who are rightly offended today by names and nicknames that came into being when a majority in this country was insensitive to minority concerns," explains Oregonian editor William A. Hilliard. Such stereotypes "damage the dignity and self-respect of many people in our society." He hinted that the paper would not rule out the possibility that other team nicknames could be added to the banned list...