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Editorial
Title IX's winners
The past 30 years have brought welcome new athletic opportunities for girls and young women, but some men's programs are unfairly crying foul.

Editorial
Abandon shoot-down program
Just how many innocent people have to be shot out of the air before our government permanently abandons a program putting them at risk? In a move that embraces an irresponsible approach to law enforcement, the State Department is poised to restart a controversial "shoot-down" program in partnership with the governments of Columbia and Peru. Under the program, American agents cooperate with Latin American fighter pilots to force down -- in fiery crashes if necessary -- suspected of drug-carrying planes whose pilots do not respond to orders to land.

Letters
Lawyers using wrong methods to buff image
Respect no joke for this lawyer (July 4) further demonstrates the self-serving nature of our legal colleagues. Rather than spend $750,000 for public relations buffing, why don't they put their efforts into passing responsible legislation and act for the good of society, instead of crippling it?

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Mere PR campaign won't change public's low view of lawyers
You might have seen the news the other day that the new president of the Florida Bar, Tod Aronovitz of Miami, is tired of lawyer jokes.

Gary Shelton
No doubt, Hewitt's the king
WIMBLEDON, England -- Grant the English this much. If nothing else, they know the look of royalty when they see it.

Eric Deggans
A pall over the fall TV season
Early signs point to a lack of innovation, risk-taking or new concepts. Perhaps viewers need to be more selective in their choices.

 

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.