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Editorial: On to Damascus?
White House saber-rattling is no substitute for a coherent Syria policy that punishes bad behavior and encourages cooperation on issues of mutual concern.

Editorial: Johnnie's birds
The "kitchen table economics" that drive House Speaker Johnnie Byrd's stilted budget philosophy contain, as it turns out, a familiar holiday meal. It's turkey, about $400-million worth, and the discovery of all those expensive birds is only the latest misadventure for which the speaker ought to eat some crow.

Letters: When boosting learning, don't forget parents
Re: Fear for 3rd-graders fuels reading program, April 15.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: The arts begin slow soak into city's soul
The first thing that caught my eye in the window of Brad Cooper's gallery was the liquid-looking, rose-colored vase with gilded tendrils threaded along its length.

John Romano: Let youngsters have points; Andreychuk makes plays
WASHINGTON -- It has changed. Just like that.

 

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.