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| | ART THIEL (SPORTS) | | | LAURA VECSEY (SPORTS) |
Pink slip? Bender deserves better
 This is the worst three-year run in Washington's hoops history. Therefore, the trendy thinking goes something like this: Off with his head. This is how many sports fans work. (2/1/02) | | Flag from WTC will fly at Olympics
 The danger is that in making a strong case for including the trade center flag in these Winter Games, the United States could give the appearance of believing the horror experienced on U.S. soil is different, or worse, or worthy of more homage than horror experienced by other nations. (2/7/02) |
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| | BILL VIRGIN (BUSINESS) | | | JOHN COOK (BUSINESS) |
Reasons to worry -- and to have hope
 Recession or recovery, Rams or Patriots, paper or plastic -- when you can't make a choice on such weighty issues, you throw all the evidence to the readers and let them decide. (2/6/02) | | Venture Capital Notebook: Super Bowl ads can work if done right
 John Cook: For all of the naysayers who say Super Bowl advertising is not worth it, one need only look at Monster.com. Also: RevX revs up with $1.5 million ... Venture gala brings out high-tech elite ... New joint-venture VC report gives credit where it's due ... (2/1/02) |
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| | CANDY HATCHER | | | ROBERT L. JAMIESON JR. |
Officials are stonewalling the case of Mayme Lui
 What does it take for a family to get straight answers from our public officials? I'm curious, because one Seattle family has been waiting 10 years to find out what was behind the murder of a much-loved community servant. (2/6/02) | | Too late comes sooner than later
 On Sunday Nick Arkon was clipping articles when he saw the headline that stole his breath: "Transplant pioneer in region dies at 19." it read. Nick was stunned. Sad beyond sad. ‘I have this regret,’ Nick told me yesterday. ‘It makes you realize if you have something to say to a loved one, don’t wait until tomorrow." (2/7/02) |
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| | JOEL CONNELLY | | | JON HAHN |
In The Northwest: The light at the end of the tunnel is a little brighter
 As director of the Jerusalem office of the American Jewish Committee, Eran Lerman works within 500 yards of several recent terror bombing sites. But he takes a wider view of events unfolding in the Islamic world. (2/6/02) | | Minister takes his mission on the road
 It's hard not to get infected with the enthusiasm that radiates from the Rev. Lars Clausen, a 40-year-old Lutheran minister who's riding his unicycle than 4,500 miles is to raise $5 million in donations for the native peoples on Alaska's Seward Peninsula, where he served his first pastorate. (2/7/02) |
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| | SUSAN PAYNTER | | | JOHN LEVESQUE (TV) |
The cost of lying is the loss of trust and personal integrity
 It feels good that lying still matters -- a lot. And that being labeled a liar still stings. It wounded the country when President Clinton did it. And, on the small stage, it has now stained tax-cut activist Tim Eyman's past and future crusades. (2/6/02) | | NBC wringing the most out of Olympics
 If TV coverage of the Olympics were itself an Olympic sport, it would be classified a team endurance event, unrecognizable from its early days in the individual sprint category. (2/7/02) |
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