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January 15, 2002
Editorials
Hold off on executions
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could affect the way Florida imposes the death penalty. The state should delay any executions until that case is decided.
A prince of a parent
Prince Charles too often has stumbled in his roles as husband, father and future king. But the way he handled his son, Prince Harry, after learning the boy, then 16, drank alcohol and smoked marijuana last summer suggests Charles may not be so cold and clueless after all.
Try a portable solution
Pinellas County School Board members, those masters of timing, are talking about spending $100,000 to $200,000 to build themselves seven private offices at the administration building in Largo. Now, each board member has a partitioned desk in a large meeting room. This comes at a time when the school system has so little money that it is considering dropping summer school and pressing substitute teachers into full-time duty.
Letters
USF faculty is misguided in backing Al-Arian
I'm tired of hearing how University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian's "academic freedom" is being violated. The faculty at USF is "outraged"? Well, so am I.
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.
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