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Hearings should be open
The only way immigrant detainees will be assured a fair hearing is if the public can monitor the government's actions.

Moving forward as busing ends
No one can fully explain the phenomenal population growth and economic prosperity that Charlotte, N.C., has enjoyed over the past three decades, but racial desegregation of the school system certainly did not hinder it. Forced by courts to bus schoolchildren, Charlotte became a national testing ground for social justice in 1970. The schools initially faced bomb threats and fighting, but some courageous academic, civic and business leaders stepped forward to embrace the change. The results speak for themselves.

Letters
Bishop's policies clearly uphold laws of the state
Re: Bishop to review priests' records, April 14.

 

Columns today
Lucy Morgan
Tired of soft talk, will Bush reach for big stick?
Sometimes a governor has to declare war on the Legislature.

Sandra Thompson
Answers are elusive in tragedy's aftermat
Earlier this week the mother of the boy who flew a plane into the 28th floor of a Bank of America building in downtown Tampa went on the Today show to tell millions of Americans that she is suing the maker of the drug Accutane, an acne medicine, for its role in her son's death.

 

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.