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Editorial: Excessive consistency
It must rankle Attorney General John Ashcroft that some Northeastern states don't share his enthusiasm for the death penalty. While New York, New Jersey and a number of other states in the region have capital punishment, it is rarely applied. Prosecutors are far less likely to seek the ultimate penalty than those in such states as Texas, Virginia, Missouri (Ashcroft's home state) and Florida. Since 1976, the South has executed 678 people to the Northeast's three.

Editorial: Take a deep breath
The Bush administration and our European allies need to repair their rift and refocus on their real enemies: rogue states and terrorist groups.

Letters: There should be no compromise on smoking ban
Re: Smoking ban.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Sanchez's campaign is a climb up the curve
The man in the dry cleaning store had a man's mostly pressed shirt draped over a mannequin. With one long tube he waved a water-filled hose over the shirt. Water would get out the last tiny wrinkles. Then, he swiftly pulled the shirt off the mannequin -- without disturbing the perfect press -- and hung it up so it could be bagged and sent out.

Gary Shelton: Owners, it's time to ante up
TAMPA -- The stretch run is here. Show us something.

 

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.