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Editorial
'Heavy-handed action'
Israel's missile attack in Gaza City violated the obligation of civilized nations to protect innocent lives, even when battling terrorists who don't.

Editorial
Political ads and hypocrites
It borders on the hilarious for Jeb Bush and the Florida Republican Party to be accusing anyone else of taking liberties with the campaign finance law. On the same day the Republicans formally charged that television spots sponsored by the teachers' union represent an illegal contribution to Democrat Bill McBride, the GOP unleashed a questionable ad of its own.

Letters
Nation's laws on bankruptcy need revision
Re: WorldCom bankruptcy.

 

Columns today
Eric Deggans
One for the spin cycle
PASADENA, Calif. -- What's the definition of spin?

Mary Jo Melone
A mother, a slaying; can she be trusted now?
Paul Schaill investigated a lot of deaths during his years as a Polk County sheriff's detective. Only one of them still makes him cry.

Gary Shelton
Don't let abusers off hook
"Things have been blown out of proportion."

 

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.