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Editorial: Gov. Bush's misplaced pride
Few institutions define a state better than its universities, which is why Gov. Jeb Bush should be careful to express pride in his spending plan for them.

Editorial: Liberty crisis
The proposal for a Patriot Act II shows how far the attorney general seems willing to go to expand his power.

Letters: Private attorneys will speed justice in capital cases
Re: Death penalty problems.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell: Too late to mediate if clothes are up in flames
My pal Tom Stearns just can't stand the thought that I am retiring and he isn't, so he keeps coming up with ideas for me to have what he calls a "mid-life career change." He ignores my response that if I am at mid life it means I have to live to be 118 years old.

Gary Shelton: Gruden: 'Amazing' year makes him want more
He came home a hero. He was a living doll. He captured a team, a town, a title.

 

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.