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Protect Americans' privacy
For years, Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, as conservative as they come on some issues, has been a watchdog for privacy rights. Now, thanks to him, we may have a chief privacy officer in the new Department of Homeland Security. After a hearing on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee subcommittee that Barr chairs, the White House signaled its willingness to consider the addition of a privacy official at the department whose job would be to look out for unnecessary incursions into privacy and the misuse of personal data.

Editorial
Let Ted Williams rest in peace
Ted Williams deserved better than this. The family feud over the disposition of the baseball legend's body is a sorry mix of ghoulishness and greed. His heirs should let the poor man rest in peace, according to his wishes.

Editorial
Political theater
Gov. Jeb Bush's appointment of Raul Cantero III to the state Supreme Court and the way Bush described his contempt for the entire American judiciary made for good political theater.

Letters
Tall ships event did well given time constraints
Re: Americas' Sail 2002-St. Petersburg.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Notes from a trip back in time
It was only appropriate that somewhere between Bushnell and Wildwood we saw a DeLorean rolling down Interstate 75.

Tampa Uncuffed
Judge issues late verdict on Krewe
In the summer of 2000, Robert Foster made a promise: He would leave Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla -- the all-male, mostly white club that hosts the annual Gasparilla parade -- if he were made a judge.

 

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.