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For a better judiciary
Frustrating choices. With candidates feeling constrained by ethics rules about what they may say, many voters often resort to meaningless measures to make their decisions, such as the number of yard signs or the order of names on the ballot. But selecting a judge is too important to leave to such guesswork. However difficult, voters should make an effort to inform themselves and to judge the candidates on the basis of their integrity, life experience, temperament and commitment to community service.

Letters
Graham is right to vote against Bush's resolution
Re: Bush gets go ahead, Oct. 11.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
Landlord squeezes the already squeezed
How disturbing it is to hear an 81-year-old woman with arthritis and varicose veins in her legs say she needs a job.

 

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.