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Letters
We need to see corporate crooks pay
Re: The justice for corporate crooks, Aug. 18.

Sami Al-Arian
Fighting for right of dissent and due process
Sami Al-Arian is a computer engineering professor at the University of South Florida who has been on forced paid leave for the past 11 months.

Martin Dyckman
USF should read and heed former governor's speech
LeRoy Collins, the governor who broke ground for the University of South Florida in 1958, eventually gave most of his official and personal papers to the institution, where they are housed in its library.

Bill Maxwell
Little Leaguers could use a lesson on sportsmanship
SAN ANGELO, Tex. -- Like millions of other television viewers around the world on Aug. 21, I watched as 12-year-old Andrew Diaz dug in his heels, crouched slightly, swung his bat and blasted the baseball over the left-field fence for a two-run homer. I watched as the ball sailed skyward.

Robyn E. Blumner
The hope of renewal that September once brought
Summer's over. September is coming.