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Y-H8-A-PL8?
Before they made a quick about-face, officials at the license plate office in Tallahassee had put atheism on a par with racial epithets and dirty words.

INS incompetence
The agency's belated visa approvals for two Sept. 11 hijackers should produce enough embarrassment to spur long-needed immigration reforms.

Nothing 'prudent' about planning nuclear attacks
Expressing opinions other than those of the government is not popular at this time. Your articles, At what point would United States use nuclear arms? (March 11) and Report calls for smaller nuclear weapons (March 10) have "nuked" my resolve.

Columns today
Robert Trigaux
Developer's recent hot streak carries over into IPO market
Florida luxury condo developer Al Hoffman's on quite a roll.

Howard Troxler
Lots of blame for everyone in child abuse case fiasco
In case you missed it, the state of Florida just had to fire the private outfit that was handling a huge backlog of child abuse cases.

Jan Glidewell
Terrorism shield takes on new hue
And you thought the government wasn't doing anything.

John Romano
Donovan's question raises more questions
CHICAGO -- The toughest guy in the room wears loafers. He's a head shorter than most everyone else and favors hair gel as a fashion statement.

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.