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Selling out to polluters
There is a simple justice to the concept of making polluters pay for cleaning up their messes. Since its inception in 1980, the Superfund program has worked that way. Chemical plants, refineries and other industries that created toxic wastes were held accountable. And when they couldn't be, the cleanup was funded by a tax on the chemicals and petroleum products that cause much of the pollution.

Editorial
After Arafat
President Bush had good reason to cast Yasser Arafat aside, but new Palestinian leadership won't necessarily improve conditions in the Middle East.

Letters
Demand changes to prevent future deaths of animals
I was horrified and disgusted when I read about the three wallabies that died after allegedly being cruelly transported by Lowry Park Zoo staff.

 

Columns today
Steve Bousquet
Record has minorities giving Bush a new look
FORT LAUDERDALE -- Gov. Jeb Bush calls it "crazy." A lot of Democrats would agree.

Gary Shelton
Love proves to be a fleeting emotion on Henman Hill
Tim Henman may be more of an overachiever than slacker, but don't tell the British tabloids.

Hubert Mizell
One of a kind
There won't be another Ted Williams. He was to hitting a baseball what Albert Einstein was to solutions in math. Number Nine knew as much about constructing a swing as Frank Lloyd Wright did about building a house. His works should be eternal study for succeeding generations, not unlike those of Van Gogh and Michelangelo.

Sandra Thompson
Just like a change of season, signs abound of our changing times
It's that weekend, the one that in other parts of the country means summer is now in full swing and you'd better enjoy it while it lasts. For us summer has been here since February and won't leave until November.

 

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.