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Editorial
CentCom's future
The Central Command's presence at MacDill is an important asset to our community, but its location should be based on what is best for national security.

Letters
Smaller classes will help students succeed in school
Re: Bush offers class-size alternative, Sept. 20.

 

Columns today
Elijah Gosier
A greater threat to U.S. security: our prejudices
I listened for hours to reports from Alligator Alley where three medical students were detained earlier this month on suspicion they were headed to Miami to "bring down" something, apparently the goal of a terrorist plot they had fine-tuned at a Shoney's in Calhoun, Ga.

Mary Jo Melone
Public trust betrayed by a private immorality
Chicago is learning to live without Bob Greene. The celebrated syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune was shown the door 10 days ago after he owned up to an affair years earlier with a high school senior.

Ernest Hooper
Wing fling, steady job, McEwen's name kept
Tetrazzini Tuesday just didn't have the right ring.

Jan Glidewell
What ifs are always hazardous to a wallet
The letter from my mortgage company made it sound easy.

Gary Shelton
Rivalry brings out Bucs' best
TAMPA -- Savor the moment. Freeze the memory.

 

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.