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Hard lesson on drugs
Young people are learning that they can be subjected to drug tests without any suspicion of individual drug use and the Constitution may not protect them.

Gains in fighting world poverty
Handing more money to corrupt, Third World governments hardly puts a dent in the fight against poverty. That's why this week's United Nations meeting on global development marked an important turn. Rich nations didn't just promise more money; they conditioned that aid on poor countries becoming more open and accountable.

Letters
Phone legislation deals with an old rate problem
Re: Dear Senate: The people will know if you raise telephone rates, by Howard Troxler, March 20.  

Columns today
Lucy Morgan
Lobbyist's humor put state Capitol in perspective
The pink coat was purchased years ago. It was one of those impulse things lobbyist Marvin Arrington did.

John Romano
Guards put on a rare show
MADISON, Wis. -- At this rate, they might ruin gaudy's bad name.

Sandra Thompson
New Ybor building's critics forget barrio's past
From his office above the Orpheum in Ybor City, architect Ken Kroger, the most misunderstood man in Tampa, can see a yawning gap in the continuity of buildings along Seventh Avenue where the Blue Ribbon Supermarket used to be. That unremarkable building burned down and what's there, along Ybor's premier street just a block from Centro Ybor, is a great big nothing. So you'd think that when Kroger came along with a design for a building to cover the entire 240-foot strip there'd be cause for jubilation, not ridicule. 

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.