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Pitt bull
SEC chairman Harvey Pitt distorts history when he tries to deny his own role in blocking reforms that might have prevented Wall Street's ethical meltdown.

Editorial
Zoo must explain wallabies' deaths
Federal authorities need to investigate how three wallabies died after being transported from Ocala to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. The animals' owner filed suit against the zoo this week, claiming it transported the wallabies in an unventilated box truck, causing the animals' "inhumane and unnatural death." The zoo's not talking, which is a mistake, given the support it receives from this community.

Letters
Poorly organized tall ships festival came up short
Re: Bitter end for those who don't fit aboard, June 30.

Bill Maxwell
Slavery alive in Florida agriculture industry
With more regularity, federal officials who monitor farm labor issues are digging out the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Written in 1865, it officially ended slavery in America. Again, the 13th Amendment "officially" ended slavery.

 

Columns today
Robert Trigaux
Who knew that accounting could be so funny?
Q: Why does Martha Stewart insist Andersen auditors help out on her cooking shows?

Howard Troxler
Many things to celebrate; many others to put right
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.

Bill Maxwell
Slavery alive in Florida agriculture industry
With more regularity, federal officials who monitor farm labor issues are digging out the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Written in 1865, it officially ended slavery in America. Again, the 13th Amendment "officially" ended slavery.

Gary Shelton
Say cheese, Jennifer
WIMBLEDON, England -- Late on a rain-soaked English afternoon, a rarely seen phenomenon of nature occurred. Even the druids were taken by surprise.

 

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.