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Editorial
The bin Laden tape
While Washington has focused attention on Saddam Hussein, the al-Qaida network has continued to carry out deadly acts of terrorism against Westerners.

Editorial
Commission put to the test
The defeats of Stacey Easterling and Chris Hart remove two of three problem members on the Hillsborough County Commission. Ronda Storms is still there, but her combative style and backward agenda marginalize her effect on a board that is more moderate and better informed. The tone of this commission will surely change, but the larger question is whether the new makeup will lead to better governing. Several early tests should offer a clue.

Letters
Execution is a horror regardless of offender's age
Re: A deathly amendment, editorial, Nov. 11.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
Naivete, and the will to change the world
They came into the room one by one, with resumes in hand and hearts full of passion and ambition.

John Romano
JoePa legacy is taking a hit
The standard is simple. It has been enforced a quarter shy of forever and there is no sense arguing its integrity or reach. Around Penn State football, there is but one way to measure conduct:

 

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.