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Editorial
A fresh face for 2004?
Now he tells us. The former vice president told a weekend gathering of key Democratic fundraisers that the Al Gore who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was an imposter . . . well, sort of. Gore conceded that he made the mistake of allowing himself to be programmed by consultants and influenced too much by polls and tactical maneuvering. They kept the real Al Gore in a political lockbox. Gore told fundraisers that if he decides to run for president in 2004, he won't make that mistake again.

Editorial
Prisons need better food service
Florida officials are gambling with prison safety by continuing to employ Aramark Corp. as the principal food service provider for the state's correctional facilities. Since the company took over prison kitchens last year, it has continually violated regulations designed to promote sanitation and safety within the facilities.

Editorial
For a better court
Raoul Cantero III, who went beyond the call of duty while defending an unrepentant terrorist, is not the best choice for appointment to the Florida Supreme Court.

Letters
Voucher decision was a victory for social justice
Re: Vouchers allowed for religious schools, June 28.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Men in suits terrorize American economy
If there is such a thing as economic terrorism -- and I don't see why there can't be -- then I have to wonder whether we are at more risk from al-Qaida or from the corporations (and their accountants) that are supposed to be the backbone of this nation's strength.

Gary Shelton
Mixed doubles
Pakistani, Israeli try to keep politics and religion off the court, but officals make that impossible.

Elijah Gosier
The view from Bader Sharabati's hill
It is almost too obvious to say, but our view of the world is determined by the vantage point from which we observe it.

 

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.