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Editorial
Put security first
The government must make airports and seaports safe, regardless of cost or convenience to the public, and not be diverted from that goal.

Editorial
A meaningful start
The Roman Catholic Church has begun to deal in meaningful ways with sexual abuse by its clergy. In the past few weeks, the church appointed new bishops in Palm Beach and Milwaukee. Two priests in Washington, D.C., lost their jobs and four priests who once served in Detroit were charged with sex crimes. America's bishops promised a tough response at their spring convention in Dallas, and the early signs are encouraging that a new attitude is taking root in some of the nation's largest Catholic dioceses.

Letters
Mental illness education aids justice system
Re: Attacking the spirit when a mind needs repair, Mary Jo Melone, Sept. 10.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Doses of humor, leaping canines, Schoolhouse Rock still rocks
Dr. Mort Brown, a retired clinical psychologist, knows all too well about the positive effects humor can have on the human condition.

Gary Shelton
Expect Sunday to be first of many wins for Gruden
BALTIMORE -- At a time such as this, you can quibble if you want.

Sara Fritz
Smoking gun in Iraq might prove elusive
WASHINGTON -- There is no smoking gun -- no stunning new evidence that Iraq's military buildup has put the world in imminent danger. But that does not mean that President Bush has failed to make a case for a pre-emptive strike on Baghdad.

 

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.