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TODAY'S GLOBE EDITORIALS

Steroid stories

WITH LESS than three weeks to go until opening day, baseball will be claiming the nation's attention today not at Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park but on Capitol Hill. The House Committee on Government Reform has subpoenaed several players and baseball executives to testify about the use of steroids in the sport.

Message to Sinn Fein

GERRY ADAMS will be meeting with Massachusetts congressmen today as he tours the United States in an attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Sinn Fein, the political party affiliated with the Irish Republican Army. The congressmen need to tell Adams that the IRA must disband and that Sinn Fein should cooperate with the reorganized Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Again, no to this nominee

A YEAR ago, the Democratic minority in the Senate blocked the nomination of William G. Myers III to the federal appeals court in San Francisco, finding that the former lobbyist for the mining and grazing industries lacked the temperament and experience for a lifetime judicial appointment. President Bush has renominated Myers. He is no more qualified now than he was ...
TODAY'S OP-ED COLUMNS

Where's the outrage on torture?

(By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)
( First of two columns ) IN AUGUST 2003, when he was commander of the military base at Guantanamo Bay, Major General Geoffrey Miller visited Baghdad with some advice for US interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison. As Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the military police commander in Iraq, later recalled it, Miller's bottom line was blunt: Abu Ghraib should be ''Gitmo-ized" ...

Big Dig blame game

(By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist)
THE BIG conspiracy about the Big Dig continues. ''The culture of obstruction and coverup starts at the very top," declared Governor Mitt Romney, who quickly pointed the finger of blame somewhere other than the top, which would be him.

My Irish 'luck'

(By Kevin O'Hara)
''STAND STILL, can't you!" snapped my mother, pinning an Erin Go Bragh button adorned with clay pipe and green ribbon to my school shirt. ''It's St. Patrick's Day! And look, shamrock," she cooed, securing a generous bunch behind the button. ''There, now," she said, stepping back to admire her handiwork. ''A lucky Irish lad, you are."

Abortion's elusive middle ground

(By Ellen Goodman, Globe Columnist)
LET ME begin by sharing one of the deep, dark secrets of columnists everywhere. Much as we like the powers-that-be to do what we tell them, we vastly prefer that they don't do it until we tell them.
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