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An apple for the teacher
Florida public schools now educate 2.5-million students. One in two is poor. One in seven has a learning disability. One in 12 speaks little or no English. The schools they attend are the largest, in average enrollment, in the nation. The classrooms in which they sit have more students, per class, than 46 of the 50 states.

Editorial
Butterworth's jam
By running for the state Senate while serving as attorney general, Bob Butterworth wound up in a partisan controversy he could have avoided.

Letters
Gore should focus on fixing his own flaws
Re: Broken promises by the powerful, by Al Gore, Aug. 6.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
Letting up on the throttle for the sake of manatees
During Sunday afternoon outings or class field trips to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, the dark room that opens onto the big glass window of the manatees' deep pool is full of eager children and their curious parents and teachers. They come to watch the big animals sway and dip in the water and munch on the occasional chunk of romaine lettuce.

Ernest Hooper
Blocking backlash; brand new business
Jeb Bush comes to Tampa today as the special guest of the Tampa Bay Black Republican Club luncheon. Woo-hoo.

John Romano
With these kids, it's always, 'Play Ball!'
GULFPORT -- Just in case the big boys are watching, this is what revenue sharing looks like. A tin bucket passed through the bleachers for donations.

 

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.