Editorial
Reluctant regulator
The list of current and former high ranking financial regulators who are pushing for John Biggs to be appointed chairman of the new accounting oversight board just keeps getting longer.

Editorial
No on Amendment 1
The measure attacks the independence of our state courts and would have little impact on executions, beyond allowing them for child offenders.

Letters
Reparations mean social justice
Re: Reparations would mute the dialogue on race, by Stephen Buckley, Oct. 6.

Margo Hammond
As war nears: sizing up Hussein's Iraq
Her husband calls her the "Grandma Moses of journalism." Holding a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Virginia, the Oklahoma-born Sandra Mackey began writing about the Middle East when she was well over 40. Now about to turn 55, she has published five books on the area.

Bill Maxwell
Colin Powell bamboozled
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- The recent flap between calypso singer Harry Belafonte and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell goes to the heart of American history. During a radio interview, Belafonte compared Powell with a "house slave" -- a harsh insult in black culture.

Philip Gailey
Those spineless Democrats
WASHINGTON -- The Democrats are so desperate to change the political debate before the November elections from war with Iraq to domestic issues that they rolled over and gave President Bush a blank check payable in American blood, another Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

Martin Dyckman
Amendment 1 could prove deadly for kids
TALLAHASSEE -- There have doubtless been children among Saddam Hussein's numberless victims, but not even he asserts the right to kill them legally. Among the 90 nations that still practice capital punishment, all but a handful have renounced its use against juveniles. The exceptions include Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United States of America.

Robyn E. Blumner
President seems unable to bear the sight or sound of dissent
President Bush seems to think bullying is the only way to deal with dissent. Bush has so much trouble articulating a defense for his own policies, so little capacity to formulate a reasoned response, that he resorts to shibboleths, name-calling or worse, using authorities to shut down his critics.