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Editorial: The Al-Arian indictment
Whether or not it amounted to criminal conduct, the USF professor's activity in support of an Islamic terrorist group is laid out in damning detail.

Editorial: A call to act on ephedra
The death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler should be a call to action for the Food and Drug Administration and Major League Baseball. Bechler, 23, died of heat stroke after working out at the team's spring training facilities in Fort Lauderdale, and the medical examiner discovered that Bechler had been using a dietary supplement containing ephedra.

Letters: Bush should fix errors revealed in Holton case
Re: Private attorneys will speed justice in capital cases, letter, Feb. 18.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler: Which face of Al-Arian should be believed?
I spent a long time Thursday with a yellow highlighter and Sami Al-Arian's federal indictment. Now it is getting late in the evening, but two feelings keep colliding in my brain, over and over.

Robert Trigaux: Bank pitches produce few home runs
Florida's biggest banks spend big bucks on slogans trying to convince the consumer how much stronger, smarter, more trustworthy or just harder working they are than their financial competitors.

Jan Glidewell: Defending the home front from a scribbler
If you don't live in Citrus County, you might have missed Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy's screed in which he refers to Citrus Hills, where the Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame is situated, as "this empty space in Florida's ugly middle."

John Romano: Tyson Freak Show in full swing again
It's a job, like any other.

 

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.