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Powell's progress
Although the secretary of state produced no breakthrough in the Middle East, his candor and patience set a foundation for future diplomacy.

Shameful death penalty mistakes
More than two years ago Illinois Gov. George Ryan imposed a moratorium on the death penalty and established a diverse commission to study its application. It was a humane response to the incontrovertible evidence that the state's system of imposing capital punishment was seriously broken. In a little more than a decade, 13 men had been released from death row after their innocence was established. One, Anthony Porter, came within 48 hours of being executed.

Letters
Life is sacred; we should end the death penalty
Re: Protect the innocent, editorial, April 13 and Panel: Radically change death penalty or drop it, April 15.

 

Columns today
Robert Troxler
It's business as unusual at shareholder meetings
The atmosphere at annual shareholder meetings so far this season ranges from party-hearty to positively funereal.

Howard Troxler
In politics of redistricting, is turnabout fair play?
For the first time in our lives, the Republican Party is in charge of drawing Florida's political districts for the next 10 years. That is because Republicans have the most votes in our Legislature.

Jan Glidewell
Al Kiefer symbolized Dade City's past, present
When I think of Al Kiefer, who died this week, I think of the hottest day I ever spent outside Vietnam.

 

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.