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A fair hearing
The Senate and the Bush administration need to move beyond the partisan stalemates that have held up judicial nominations since the Clinton years.

Editorial
Keeping voters in the dark
The reality about modern campaign finance laws is that they do precious little to stem the flow of special-interest money into politics, but they at least provide one aid to voters. The candidates and political parties that take the money are required to tell the public who gave them what.

Letters
Smaller classes won't solve root problems
Re: Class size amendment.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
An adrenaline rush with Tampa police; rockin' with the media
My first ride-along with a Tampa Police officer was on its way to an uneventful Friday until the 6.7 seconds it took for a white Geo Storm to go dangerously sidewinding through a neighborhood intersection in Drew Park. We went immediately from calm to chaos.

Gary Shelton
Bengals sharing woes of old Bucs
CINCINNATI -- The Bucs looked pretty good, not great. And thank goodness for it.

Sara Fritz
Bush's winning strategy: keep it simple, focused
WASHINGTON -- Since the day he was born, it seems, George W. Bush has been compared -- often unfavorably -- with his father.

 

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.