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Hoping for a miracle
(12/2/2001)
Elaine Nicholson of Westford can only dream of commanding the kind of public attention that Dr. Michael West of Worcester was able to orchestrate last week.

Defenseless to fight back
(11/28/2001)
There is nothing optional about a federal court order, not even for the Massachusetts Legislature.

Four-legged blessings
(11/21/2001)
This is the tale of the Thanksgiving Rabbit. Any other autumn, the moral of this story would be ''no good deed goes unpunished.'' But this is no ordinary autumn.

Defense tactic insults us all
(11/18/2001)
Misogyny is a measure of character, not of sanity. Child abuse is a trauma, not an excuse. Cross-dressing is an eccentricity, not a mental illness. The insanity defense in the first-degree murder trial of Dr. Richard Sharpe is in big trouble.

Agency puts workers last
(11/14/2001)
Sometimes your adversary lurks in the place you least suspect.

Tax defeat not total loss
(11/11/2001)
Not every loss is a defeat. Especially in politics, initial failures often yield ultimate triumphs.

Decimating the front line
(11/7/2001)
The letter arrived on Monday, the same day that medical researchers began administering trial doses of smallpox vaccine to volunteers.

'Underpants' and Oprah
(11/4/2001)
Have I got the girl for Jonathan Franzen! You know, he's the writer who turned his nose up at having his novel featured by Oprah Winfrey's Book Club because he considers his work more in the ''high art literary tradition.'' Inappropriate for the rest of us Philistines, in other words.