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Editorial: Imperiling the Internet
A troubling Australian court ruling should spur Washington to support an international agreement to protect U.S. publications from overseas censors.

Editorial: Corporate scandal payback
Friday's agreement by the nation's biggest brokerage firms to pay $1.5-billion in fines brings a fitting end to a long year of cascading corporate scandals. Though the penalties could end some of the worst practices on Wall Street, the settlement falls short by punishing corporations and sparing the duplicitous executives who ran them. The federal government should pick up where New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who launched this probe, left off, by investigating the culpability of individual managers and analysts.

Letters: Bush's missile defense repeats old boondoggle
Re: Missile defenses to be placed in Alaska, Calif., Dec. 18.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson: Power to think straight is a rare gift amid chaos of the holidays
Tis the season.

Lucy Morgan: Strewn ornaments, two guilty felines greet the season
The red birds seemed like a good idea at the time.

Sara Fritz: President true winner in Senate showdown
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., will likely be elected by his peers as the new Senate majority leader, replacing Trent Lott. But the real winner of the Senate leadership contest is President Bush.

 

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.