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Minnesota's real wrestler
Most of the country came to learn many remarkable facts about Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone only after his death in a plane crash. His unusual political career has been properly eulogized, but his amazing wrestling career has been only a footnote.

Editorial
Haitians' discriminatory detention
A real-life human drama was captured on live television Tuesday as more than 200 Haitians jumped off a freighter that had taken them within yards of Florida's shore. The cameras caught the refugees dashing toward land in a desperate attempt to elude border authorities. The heartbreaking scene has sparked a new debate on the treatment of Haitians relative to others who seek asylum here.

Editorial
All in the family
Tiffany Todd has raised a record $75,000 in contributions for the Pinellas School Board race thanks to her mother's connections on her daughter's behalf.

Letters
Candidate replies
The Times offers candidates not recommended by its Editorial Board an opportunity to reply. Here are some of those replies.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
In battle of favorites, my winners
In the spirit of Chrissy vs. Janet, Dick Sargent vs. Dick York and the Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones, we present another round of local favorites pitted against their natural rivals.

Lucy Morgan
Legislators gain a bit more isolation
If you travel around Florida very much, you are more than familiar with the little Haviland Dash-8 airplanes. You've probably complained about being stuffed into the equivalent of a sardine can with 30 or so strangers.

Sandra Thompson
In long run, spoiling kids is less than kind
I'm one of those unfortunate "would-have, should-have, could-have" people who look back on all the dumb things they've done in their lives and second guess how they might have acted better. Now that the stock market has been rotten for how long, I spend useless time thinking about things I spent money on that I wish I hadn't.

 

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.