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USF slow to connect
E-mail. Chat rooms. Instant messaging. Doesn't anyone just talk anymore? Apparently not at the University of South Florida. Officials waited until recently to clue in students, faculty and staff about a difficult decision made earlier this year to start charging those off campus to access the Internet through a campus phone-modem service.

Editorial
Poisoning a good bill
Legislation that would protect aging greyhounds is subverted by another devious attempt to expand casino-style gambling at parimutuel operations.

Editorial
Justice in Birmingham
Bobby Frank Cherry looks like a harmless old man today. The other men who conspired with Cherry to bomb a black church in Birmingham 38 years ago are either elderly or dead. The perverse energy that fueled their racial hatred is mostly burned out now.

Letters
Everglades bill won't hamper Floridians' rights
Re: Everglades bill's dirty tradeoff, editorial, May 20.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
If Peter pays his taxes, shouldn't Paul Inc.?
Since bashing the governor and Legislature the other day for cutting Florida's corporate income tax, I have been bashed in turn by a whole raft of smart people. It is fun. They say, in essence:

Jan Glidewell
Meaning of graduation shouldn't be taken lightly
I have a slightly unusual perspective on the Pasco issue of whether kids who haven't met graduation requirements should take part in graduation ceremonies: A long time ago I was one of those kids.

John Romano
Mets offer a lesson in naivete
Bobby Valentine made a mistake. And perhaps the rest of us are at fault.

Ernest Hooper
Dress rule is history, and so is my couch
Ididn't think it was a big deal that Bloomingdale High was telling its senior girls to wear a dress or skirt with a hemline that didn't show beneath graduation gowns. Not a big deal, that is, until I spoke to Bloomingdale seniors Alicia Traurig and Amber Smith.

 

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.