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Editorial
The price of hypocrisy
The agreement between Merrill Lynch and New York's attorney general could be the first step toward broader reforms that are overdue for Wall Street.

Editorial
DNA testing also proves guilt
It's the kind of case that ought to make prosecuting attorneys and law enforcement officials strong advocates of DNA testing.

Editorial
A common goal in Cuba
President Bush and former President Jimmy Carter seek the same goal in Cuba -- greater political and economic freedom for the Cuban people and a respect for human rights. They differ, however, on the best way to encourage the growth of freedom. Carter, who recently visited Cuba and met with political dissidents, used the opportunity to criticize Fidel Castro's human rights abuses, but he also was honest enough to acknowledge that both countries have an interest in moving toward normal relations.

Letters
Consider energy alternatives over nuclear power
Re: Nuclear waste a mountain of a problem, May 28.

 

Columns today
Gary Shelton
Soccer? Just great! Pass me the remote
There is an easy way to get me to watch the World Cup.

Tampa Uncuffed
Judge's order: No more shrimp
The charge: stealing shrimp.

 

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.