Editorials An exciting lineup for Times Festival of Reading Authors' talks, book signings, a book market, book appraisals and open-air stages of music, poetry and drama will be among the offerings at this year's Times Festival of Reading. Our tax vulnerability With its dependence on sales tax revenues, Florida is especially likely to suffer when taxes go unpaid on Internet sales. Congress should act to make collecting those taxes easier. Of monotubes and monocrats These things are not, as one local radio station has so indelicately insisted, sewer pipes that pump unmentionable things above the ground and over passing cars. Their job is to hold up traffic signals and road signs against all of nature's odds, and such performance is apparently what requires them to be of considerable girth, as signposts go.
Teachers can expect few encouraging words .
A bearded man gets a reaction In the theater of current popular culture, few things interest me more than media paroxysms and average people's reactions following each sighting of Al Gore. There's really no need for a straitjacket. Robyn E. Blumner Conference promoting tolerance has little for Jews and Israel Those who think the much-touted International Criminal Court could only serve as a source for goodness and light should take a look at the way the current U.N. Conference against Racism has been hijacked by parochial political interests looking to further isolate Israel. St. Petersburg Times. All rights reserved.