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Bill Maxwell: A haven for the Thanksgiving holiday
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- For the first time in many years, I will not spend Thanksgiving with relatives and longtime friends.

Editorial: A test for freedom at Harvard
Which is the true face of Harvard University? Is it a school that withstands censorial pressures by standing firm against students who want a vitriolic anti-Israeli poet barred from speaking on campus? Or is it a place where free-speech principles can be sacrificed for political correctness? The school's continued reputation as a place of intellectual rigor and academic freedom depend on the answer.

Editorial: The Saudi money trail
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are among the supposed U.S. allies with longstanding links to terrorism that the White House has seemed reluctant to explore.

Letters: Now is the time to move toward clean energy
Re: EPA relaxes air pollution rules, Nov. 23.

 

Columns today
Bill Maxwell: A haven for the Thanksgiving holiday
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- For the first time in many years, I will not spend Thanksgiving with relatives and longtime friends.

Gary Shelton: Bowden did right, unless he did wrong
The old guy has had enough. Bobby Bowden finally has slammed his fist down.

Howard Troxler: One holiday, evolving, with dignity and hope for all
We are taught that the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving out of gratitude for a good harvest. That's a nice way of putting it. A harsher way is that they were thankful for not being dead, and for having an improved chance of not dying in the immediate future.

Robert Trigaux: Bus ride sparks impetus for bay area's biotech future
For this typically fragmented metro area, something unusually united happened in October on a bus ride full of Tampa Bay business, academic and political leaders.

 

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.