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Treat airline passengers better
The airlines continue to push the envelope in their efforts to make flying as predatory and unpleasant as possible. You would think an industry lining up for billions of dollars in post-Sept. 11 federal loan guarantees would be courting passengers instead of looking for ways to drive them to other forms of transportation. The airlines are cutting back on what few amenities air travel has left. Delta and American are stopping some meals, USAirways is paring back on drinks and Continental is hoarding cutlery and withholding full cans of soda.

Editorial
Court's check on power
An appellate's court rejection of closed immigration hearings for detainees offers hope that the courts will keep our administration in check.

Letters
In confronting Iraq, we shouldn't forget Sept. 11
Re: Concern over Iraq is suspicious, letter, Aug. 28.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
With this place comes a new sense of name
The rule was unwritten as far as I know, but real: For years, reporters weren't allowed to say we were from the St. Pete Times.

Ernest Hooper
Why not the Ernie Hooper Dome?
Hey, it's not the same as the Florida State University Alumni Association gathering in Gainesville, but imagine for a moment the 2004 Republican National Convention being held in a building named after a newspaper some conservative critics like to call Pravda West.

Tampa Uncuffed
A second look at driver's influence
When Hillsborough deputies found 24-year-old Andrea Krueger driving the wrong way down Florida Avenue in a Chevy Cavalier, they pulled her over for a field sobriety test.

Gary Shelton
Offense right plan for Bucs, if it comes
Give me the points.

 

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.