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January 17, 2002
Editorials
Bolster our defenses
Events since Sept. 11 have revealed the unparalleled strength of the United States' conventional military resources -- and the dangerous gaps that had existed in our ability to defend ourselves from terrorism and other unconventional threats to our security. Bolstering our defenses against those so-called "asymmetrical" threats without weakening our conventional military assets will be a paramount national mission for many years to come.
A flimsy budget
The budget Gov. Jeb Bush's unveiled this week is inadequate in nearly every way, offering little help to schools, state workers and health and social programs.
Letters
New law may do little to improve airline security
Re: Deadline looms to screen luggage, and Airport security doesn't fly, by Debra Saunders, Jan. 9.
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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