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Today's Globe Editorials
Taming MassPort
THE MASSACHUSETTS Port Authority emerges from the pages of a special commission report as a hydra-headed ''monster'' that spews patronage jobs and is capable of growing more heads each time one is lopped off. The only way to tame it is to starve it, prompting Acting Governor Jane Swift to call on the Legislature yesterday to impose a ''moratorium'' on patronage hires at the independent public agency that manages Logan International Airport and the Port of Boston.
Reform goes to court
IT CERTAINLY sounded yesterday morning as if at least some members of the Supreme Judicial Court think the Legislature has precipitated a constitutional crisis by spurning the voter-approved Clean Elections Law.
Arafat's duty
ALONG, desolating cycle of violence led to the terrorist atrocities perpetrated this weekend by suicide bombers in Jerusalem and Haifa. Already there are voices trying to place blame entirely on one side or the other, or to castigate hawks or doves, for causing so much cruelty and despair.
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Today's Op-Ed Page
The race is on for Birmingham's post
IT'S NOT ALL business as usual in the Massachusetts Legislature. A prolife woman Democrat is campaigning to be the next Senate president.
Arafat's predicament
JUST AS the new US special envoy, General Anthony Zinni, was in the middle of his first Middle East peace mission, new horrific bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa left scores of innocent Israelis dead and wounded. This, in addition to the continuing bloodshed in the past several weeks that have left dozens of Palestinian and Israeli casualties, has quickly shifted the focus to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's ability to prevent such violence.
A new Social Security option
WASHINGTON AS ALWAYS, even with an 800-pound gorilla like Social Security, there is a third way - especially when the first two ways have lost large chunks of their economic and political viability.
Advent's message in a time of terror
I HAD JUST COME in from attending Saturday evening Mass to mark the Christian observance of the start of Advent when the TV news broadcast the first bulletins of the terror attacks in Jerusalem. Like many others, I called friends at once to be sure their relatives were safe.
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